In the last chapter, we discussed the process of deploying applications to Azure using best-of-breed and stand-alone DevOps tools: TeamCity as a CI tool, and Octopus Deploy as a CD tool. The challenge with the example solution is that there are separate tools used to deploy applications. In this chapter, we review a DevOps platform, an all-encompassing end-to-end solution called Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS); see www.visualstudio.com/team-services/ .
VSTS is a collaborative ...