Azure DevOps Generator – New Content
Recently Microsoft open sourced the Azure Devops Generator and recently its had some new content added which I wanted to highlight. You can use this tool to learn all sorts of Azure Devops tips and tricks from building code, seeing how it hangs together, deploying and even checking your code for vulnerabilities with arm templates and GitHub resources etc.
I can’t stress how useful this resource has been for me to spinning up test Azure Devops Projects for blog posts, testing security add-ons, etc. (more blogs to follow very soon). Please play with this and learn, the demo generator has a lot more in it than the lat time I checked and was pleasantly surprised, its an awesome tool.
The following is a quick tour of what is there at present: –
General Tab
The general tab is for creating projects in Azure DevOps from existing project templates, this will give you full source code, build and release pipelines, wikis, example kanban boards with issues etc and more
Note: There are different types of project if you scroll down the list.
Devops Labs Tab
On this tab we have more sample projects, but this time they cover the concepts of things like using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Azure Key Vault and more, if you want to learn more about these then here is a great way to give them a spin.
Microsoft Learn Tab
Using Microsoft Learn we can learn how to do things like: –
- Create a build pipeline with Azure Pipelines
- Scan code for vulnerabilities in Azure Pipelines
- Manage database changes in Azure Pipelines
- Run non-functional tests in Azure Pipelines
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework Tab
The Cloud Adoption Plan template creates a backlog for managing cloud adoption efforts based on the guidance in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.
Private Tab
Azure DevOps Demo Generator enables users to create their own templates using existing projects and provision new projects using extracted template. The capacity to have custom templates can be helpful in many situations, such as constructing custom training content, providing only certain artifacts, etc.
You can even create a template from an existing project you have within Azure DevOps by selecting ‘Create New Template’ – this is super nice, I’ll leave you to explore this further.
Enjoy!
