Azure Dev Ops subscription.

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Azure Dev Ops subscription

How to subscribe for Azure Dev Ops services. We need Visual Studio Subscription

Visual Studio Subscription:

Visual Studio subscriptions include Azure DevOps benefits like access to Azure DevOps Services and monthly Azure credits.

Types of Visual Studio subscriptions:

• Visual Studio Professional: For individual developers.
• Visual Studio Enterprise: For advanced development and testing needs.

Subscribe to Visual Studio

1. Purchase Visual Studio Subscription:

·         Visit the Visual Studio Subscriptions Page.

·         Select the appropriate subscription plan (Professional or Enterprise).

·         Complete the purchase process.

1. Link Visual Studio Subscription to Azure DevOps:

·         Sign in to Azure DevOps with the same Microsoft account used for your Visual Studio subscription.

·         Visual Studio subscribers automatically get access to Azure DevOps features.

Benefits of Visual Studio Subscription

Azure DevOps Access:

Visual Studio subscribers get access to Azure DevOps features like Test Plans and advanced pipelines.

Azure Credits:

Enterprise subscribers receive monthly Azure credits that can be used for Azure services.

Developer Tools:

Includes Visual Studio IDE, cloud services, and other developer too

Reference

Visual Studio Subscriptions: Get Access to Premium Developer Tools

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If you already have a Visual Studio subscription, you get certain Azure DevOps features included, depending on your subscription type.

Some of the benefits include:

• Azure Boards & Repos (Basic plan) access.
• Access to Azure Test Plans, for some subscription levels.
• Self‐hosted parallel jobs (for certain levels).
• Your Visual Studio subscription is automatically recognized when you sign in to Azure DevOps, avoiding separate license costs for many of the features.

However, even with a Visual Studio subscription, there are limits and additional services that may incur extra cost:

• If you have more than 5 users needing “Basic” access (for Boards, Repos, etc.), additional Basic users are paid beyond the first five (unless they are Visual Studio subscribers themselves).
• “Basic + Test Plans” features (i.e. advanced test tools) may not be completely included for all levels of Visual Studio — sometimes these are paid add-ons or require a higher subscription level.
• Parallel build pipelines, extra storage, artifacts, or self-hosted agents may involve extra charges.

To subscribe, use the following steps:

1. Verify your Visual Studio subscription entitlement Make sure your Visual Studio subscription is active, and you know which level you have (Professional, Enterprise, Test Pro, etc.). This determines what Azure DevOps benefits you're entitled to.
2. Sign in to Azure DevOps with the same account you use for Visual Studio When you log into Azure DevOps (dev.azure.com), use the account associated with your Visual Studio subscription. Azure will detect your subscription and grant you the included access levels.
3. Create or use an existing Azure DevOps Organization If you don't already have an organization, you'll need to create one. During setup, you choose an organization name and region.
4. Add your team/users and assign access levels
   • Users with Visual Studio subscriptions should be given the Visual Studio subscriber access level in Azure DevOps — when they sign in, Azure recognizes their subscription and gives them the appropriate permissions/benefits.
   • Users without Visual Studio subscriptions can be assigned free Stakeholder access, or paid Basic / Basic + Test Plans access if needed.
5. Set up billing if needed If you need more paid users, paid pipelines, extra storage, etc., you'll need to configure billing under the Azure DevOps organization settings.

More at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/subscriptions/vs-azure-devops, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/billing/buy-basic-access-add-users?view=azure-devops, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/subscriptions/, and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/set-up-vs?view=azure-devops

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