Azure DevOps

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Terms in this definition

• Azure Boards

  Work-tracking service within Azure DevOps.

• Azure Pipelines

  CI/CD service within Azure DevOps that deploys applications and infrastructure as code, with environments, approvals and checks.

Related terms

• Active committer

  How GHAS for Azure DevOps is charged. Each person counts once if they've pushed to any repository with it switched on within 90 days, even when several organisations share one Azure subscription.

• Azure Artifacts

  Hosts Universal Packages, Cargo, Maven/Gradle, Python, npm and NuGet packages for Azure DevOps teams, in feeds that can draw on upstreams. Container images go elsewhere; GitHub Packages is the GitHub counterpart.

• Azure Boards app for GitHub

  Lets work items in Boards link to commits, branches, pull requests and issues once installed from GitHub. Any one repository connects to a single Azure DevOps organisation and project only.

• Azure Deployment Environments

  Retiring on 22 February 2027 (Microsoft points people to Azure Verified Modules, Bicep or ARM deployments and Azure DevOps or GitHub workflows). Until then, it gives developers self-service app infrastructure built from curated IaC definitions kept in dev center catalogs, governed by platform engineers.

• Azure DevOps Administrator

  Microsoft Entra role for managing enterprise-level Azure DevOps policies across the organisations connected to the tenant; it gives no rights to register apps or grant admin consent.

• Azure DevOps OAuth

  Deprecated OAuth 2.0 platform native to Azure DevOps, used by apps calling its REST APIs. Registrations stopped in April 2025, removal is planned during 2026, and Entra ID OAuth replaces it for new integrations.

• Azure DevOps security group

  Groups like Readers, Contributors, Project Administrators and Project Collection Administrators that hand out permissions in Azure DevOps. Which features someone can use is decided separately by their access level: Stakeholder, Basic or Basic + Test Plans.

• Azure DevOps Services

  Microsoft-hosted Azure DevOps; work tracking customisation uses the inheritance model. The self-hosted edition is called Azure DevOps Server.