Working with Azure DevOps organization
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In today’s blog post, we will discuss working with Azure DevOps organization. We will learn what is organization in Azure DevOps, how to create, update and delete an Azure DevOps organization.
What is Azure DevOps Organization?
An organization in Azure DevOps is a mechanism for organizing and connecting groups of related projects. Examples include business divisions, regional divisions, or other enterprise structures. You can choose one organization for your entire company, one organization just for you, or separate organizations for specific business units.
Each organization gets its own free tier of services (up to five users for each service type) as follows. You can use all the services, or choose just what you need to complement your existing workflows.
- Azure Pipelines: One hosted job with 1,800 minutes per month for CI/CD and one self-hosted job
- Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
- Azure Repos: Unlimited private Git repos
- Azure Artifacts: Package management
- Unlimited Stakeholders:
- Five Azure DevOps users (Basic)
- Free tier of Microsoft-hosted CI/CD (one concurrent job, up to 30 hours per month)
- 2 GiB of Azure Artifacts storage
- One self-hosted CI/CD concurrent job
Working with Azure DevOps organization
Prerequisites:
How to create a new organization in Azure DevOps?
Step 1: Login to your Azure DevOps account using below link
https://dev.azure.com/your_existing_organization_name
Step 2: Click New organization
Step 3: Click Continue. You can also switch directory if you want.
Step 4: Provide a name to your organization and a location where your project will be hosted and click Continue.
Your new Azure DevOps organization created successfully.
You can access your new organization anytime using below link.
https://dev.azure.com/your_new_organization_name
How to change Azure DevOps organization name?
Step 1: Open your organization settings page.
Step 2: Provide the new name for your organization and optionally you can also set the time zone, privacy policy and description for your organization. Click Save to rename your Azure DevOps organization.
Note: This will change your Azure DevOps URL, please evaluate before you change.
Step 3: Confirm the new organization name and click Save.
How to delete your Azure DevOps organization?
Step 1: Login to your Azure DevOps organization using below link
https://dev.azure.com/your_organization_name
Step 2: Navigate to organization settings => Overview page and click Delete.
Step 3: Confirm the organization name and click Delete.
How to create a new project in Azure DevOps organization?
Step 1: Login to your Azure DevOps organization using below link
https://dev.azure.com/your_organization_name
Step 2: Navigate to organization settings => Projects page and click New project.
Step 3: Provide a name and visibility level for your project and click Create.
How to grant access to a user in Azure DevOps organization?
Step 1: Login to your Azure DevOps organization using below link
https://dev.azure.com/your_organization_name
Step 2: Navigate to organization settings => Users page and click Add users.
Step 3: Add the user email id and access level for the user to be added. Optionally you can grant access to a project to the user. Click Add to add the new user.
Step 4: The new user needs to accept the email invitation to join your organization.
Hope you have enjoyed this article. To know more about Azure DevOps, please refer below official documentation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/?view=azure-devops