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Staging area for our practical guidance, giving you an early glimpse into upcoming guidance.

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ALM | DevOps Rangers Guidance

Introduction

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.

Chapters

Branching Guidance

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.

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Completed articles 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

DevOps Articles

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.

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Completed 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

Work in progress

Article DRAFT FINAL PUBLICATION
Manage database upgrades DRAFT 2

Planning Guidance

The purpose is to build some insightful and practical guidance to replace the aging TFS Planning, Disaster Avoidance and Recovery guidance.

GUIDELINES

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

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Stories

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

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Work in progress

Article DRAFT FINAL PUBLICATION
Our journey of transforming to a DevOps culture WORK IN PROGRESS
Is DevOps a misnomer for part-time community teams?

Contribute

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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