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Sign up for Azure DevOps

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Azure DevOps Services

When you sign up for Azure DevOps, you get the following tier of free services:

  • First five users free (Basic license)
  • Azure Pipelines:
    • One Microsoft-hosted CI/CD (one concurrent job, up to 30 hours per month)
    • One self-hosted CI/CD concurrent job
  • Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
  • Azure Repos: Unlimited private Git repos
  • Azure Artifacts: Two GiB free per organization

You can sign up for Azure DevOps with either a Microsoft or GitHub account. For more information, see What is Azure DevOps?

Sign up with a Microsoft account

  1. If you don't have one, create a Microsoft account now.
  2. Go to Azure DevOps and select Start free.
  3. Enter your account credentials and go through the sign-up process.

Azure DevOps does the following tasks:

  • Creates an organization.
  • Creates a project named after your newly created Microsoft account.
    • If you signed up with an existing Microsoft account, you need to create a project next.

Sign in to your organization at any time https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}.

Sign up with a GitHub account

Note

If your GitHub email address is already associated with an organization in Azure DevOps that's connected to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), you can't sign in with your GitHub account. You must sign in with your Azure AD account.

  1. If you don't have one, create a GitHub account now.
  2. Go to Azure DevOps and select Start free with GitHub.
  3. Enter your account credentials and go through the sign-up process. You're asked to Authorize Microsoft-corp.

Azure DevOps does the following tasks:

  • Creates an organization. Sign in to your organization at any time https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}.
  • Turns on the Invite GitHub users policy by default. Invite GitHub users policy Before you can invite users, you must create a project, as shown in Next steps. For more information about GitHub authentication, see FAQs.

Next steps

Create a project or

Add users or groups to a team or project