Is DevOps a different subscription from Azure? + How to create a Pipeline ?

Question

(Note that I am trying to take over a project that the initial developer has left the application with no documentation and almost no knowledge transfer. Hence I'm exploring it bit by bit and I'm not aware of the reasons for past choices.)

The application uses GIT as repository and has a back solution (.NET WebAPI/Visual Studio), a front-end project (mostly Angular/Visual Studio Code); "local", staging and production environments. But many deployement aspects are unclear so far. The backend is deployed in Azure Web Apps Deployment Slots and the front end is deployed in Azure Storages.

After watching tutorials on Azure (DevOps) Pipelines, I think they may be a solution.

• I went to portal.azure.com , I see that I can search for Pipelines in the search bar. But when I got to the Pipelines page, the list is empty and I cannot create a pipeline from there
• I went to dev.azure.com but when I click on sign in, I got directed to portal.azure.com
• I went back to dev.azure.com and click on "Start for free" and it asked for the name of the company.
• I stopped there because I don't see clearly through this:
  • Should the company be able to create Azure Pipeline using its current Azure Subscription?
  • Is DevOps a completely different beast and we should get a DevOps subscription?
• In addition: when I go to dev.azure.com now, I get redirected to a blank page.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

azure devops (the replacement for visual studio teams) is a separate from your azure subscription. typically you would use your visual studio or GitHub account, but you can use any Microsoft account (say your azure account if you have one).

you need a GitHub repro (or old visual studio teams repo) to make use of a pipeline. the azure devops account will need access to the repo. azure DevOps overlaps with GitHub actions for build and deployment. Typically for deployment, GitHub actions are supported before azure DevOps.

for the azure pipeline or GitHub actions to deploy to azure you will need an azure subscription.

read this before creating your first organization:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/user-guide/plan-your-azure-devops-org-structure?view=azure-devops