Welcome to our staging area for our practical guidance, giving you an early glimpse into upcoming guidance. You can find a list of all our published articles here.
Information and views expressed in this guidance, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it.
The purpose is to build some insightful and practical guidance around branching and merging with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services, to be shared as technical articles.
Start here to edit the branching articles
| Article | DRAFT | FINAL PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|
| Effective feature isolation on TFVC | DRAFT.4 | docs.microsoft.com |
| Effective TFVC branching strategies for DevOps | DRAFT.3 | docs.microsoft.com |
| SVN to Git migration | DRAFT.4 | docs.microsoft.com |
The purpose is to build some insightful and practical guidance to "rub some DevOps" on Visual Studio Team Services, to be shared as technical articles.
Start here to edit the DevOps articles
| Article | DRAFT | FINAL PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|
| Phase rollout of your application with rings | DRAFT.2 | docs.microsoft.com |
| Security Validation CI/CD Pipeline | DRAFT.3 | docs.microsoft.com |
| Phase the features of your application with feature flags | DRAFT.3 | docs.microsoft.com |
| Article | DRAFT | FINAL PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|
| Manage database upgrades | DRAFT 2 |
The purpose is to build some insightful and practical guidance to replace the aging TFS Planning, Disaster Avoidance and Recovery guidance.
GUIDELINES
- Based on TFS Planning, Disaster Avoidance and Recovery guidance guidance
- Reference product documenation where relevant - do not duplicate
- Article format, length, style, and tone to align with technical articles
- Build and review article here. After PO approval, we'll migrate to technical articles
Look at aka.ms/devopsarticles to get a feel of the tone and length of articles and familiarise yourself with ALM-Rangers/Guidance where we will create the first DRAFT.
| Article | LEAD | DRAFT | FINAL PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Options for planning an Azure DevOps engineering environment | Willy | DRAFT.2 | |
| Options for planning an Azure DevOps engineering environment (workbook) | KenM | DRAFT.2 | |
| Deploy Azure DevOps Server on Azure IaaS | NielZ | ||
| Encourage disaster avoidance in your Azure DevOps Server environment | |||
| Explore options for defining your Team project and Team strategy in Azure DevOps | Jesper |
Start here to edit the planning articles
The purpose is to create articles that give an insight into the transformation of our process, culture, and community, by sharing stories from the field.
| Article | DRAFT | FINAL PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|
| Our DevOps transformation | DRAFT | opensource.com |
| Should we use the ring deployment model, feature flags, or both? | DRAFT | opensource.com |
Start here to edit the stories
| Article | DRAFT | FINAL PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|
| Our journey of transforming to a DevOps culture | WORK IN PROGRESS | |
| Is DevOps a misnomer for part-time community teams? |
Contributions to this project are welcome. Here is how you can contribute:
- Submit bugs and help us verify fixes
- Submit pull requests for bug fixes and features and discuss existing proposals
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