Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps is a set of services for building and shipping software. The parts people most often mean are Azure Repos for Git hosting and Azure Pipelines for build and deployment automation.

In infrastructure work, Azure DevOps often acts as the control plane for Terraform or Ansible. A pipeline checks out a repo, authenticates to Azure through a service connection or service principal, runs validation, then plans or applies a change.

The product can look old-fashioned next to GitHub Actions, but it is still common in Microsoft-heavy organisations. The sharp edges are usually around permissions, service connections, and YAML that grows faster than anyone planned.