Most Azure DevOps users belong to this default project group, which lets them read and change code, work items and pipelines but not administer anything. Don't confuse it with Azure RBAC's Contributor.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure DevOps
Microsoft's suite of DevOps services, among them Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines.
- Default project
Lets VPCs be used in NSX without setting up any tenant projects. From the vSphere Client, vCenter admins can make VPCs, subnets and external IPs inside it.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- RAMP
The approach used by the Cloud Adoption Framework's Manage methodology to structure cloud operations: teams, duties, processes and tools. It divides what the central platform handles from what each workload handles.
- Azure RBAC
Azure's model for granting access: built-in or custom roles are assigned at a scope to users, groups or managed identities. Calling Foundry keylessly with Entra ID requires a data-plane role, for example Foundry User (formerly Azure AI User) or Cognitive Services OpenAI User.
- Contributor
Built-in Azure role with full management of resources, except that it can't give access to anyone.
Related terms
- 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.
- Capacity administrator
Assigned when a Fabric capacity is created, this role applies to that one capacity only. Its holders can alter settings, attach workspaces, add contributors and override any tenant settings delegated to the capacity; it is not the same as the Fabric administrator role.
- Fork
A server-side copy of a repository in which a contributor's changes stay separate until a pull request brings them into the original. Forks suit projects with many occasional contributors; small teams generally manage with branches alone.
- Waterfall chart
Starts from an opening value and shows each rise and fall that builds the running total. Adding a field to Breakdown splits every category into its largest contributors.
- Workspace recycle bin
A preview view in a workspace that keeps deleted items of supported types, provided the Item Recovery tenant setting is on (as it is by default), for a period the tenant sets between 3 and 90 days. Admins, Members and Contributors can bring items back, but permanent deletion is for Admins only.