Visual Studio Online is a cloud-based hub that provides services for teams including agile planning, source code version control, building, testing, release management, and application insights. It allows developers to host virtual machines in Azure to configure environments for coding and testing using tools like PowerShell Desired State Configuration or Chef. The development lifecycle managed by Visual Studio Online includes continuous integration, deployment to test environments, load testing, approvals for releases, and monitoring applications in production for performance and usage insights.

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Deliver value to your customers faster, improve software
quality and get feedback on performance and usage.
Remove barriers between developers, operations and users
to streamline your development workflow from the
backlog into production.
VSO environments hosted in Azure.
VMs are provisioned as needed for
each environment. They are configured
using DSC (PowerShell Desired State
Configuration), PowerShell or Chef.
Your developers set up dev machines
using Microsoft Azure and also any test
machines that they need.
Set up VMs using PowerShell Desired
State Configuration (DSC) to easily
create the environments needed for
coding and testing.
Host your code in the cloud to access
it anytime and from anywhere. Pick a
centralized version control system using
Team Foundation Version Control, or use
Git repos for a distributed workflow.
Build your code using the hosted build
controller provided by VSO.
Run build verification tests as part of
your process to check the quality of your
code before you do more testing.
If the tests pass, use that build to deploy
your app to environments for each stage
in your release process. Manage the
steps in the process with approvals for
each step.
First deploy to a test environment for
automated functional testing.
Deploy to an environment for integrated
testing with other services that your app
needs.
Test that your app performs under
load by using cloud-based load testing
provided by VSO.
Use Release Management to assign
approvers that must sign off before any
release can be deployed to production.
When ready, deploy your code into
production.
Use Application Insights to monitor your
live application for performance and
availability issues as well as usage.
The usage feedback and direct customer
feedback are both added to the product
backlog to be included in the agile
planning process.
Use the product backlog to determine
what are the highest priority items for
your users that your team should be
working on. As the work is done, the
continuous integration process checks
the quality of the code.
If an issue occurs during production,
developers can use IntelliTrace logs to
debug the problem.
The VSO hub makes it easy to find out
everything about the status of a project
in one place.
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