A VSTS account offers free unlimited and private Git repositories which can be connected from your favorite development tools. A VSTS account can be setup using your personal Microsoft Account, which can be created at https://signup.live.com. We can register VSTS accounts using an organization's account configured in Azure Active directory. Although you can create any number of repository within a free account, the number of users associated with a repository has few limitations.
An Azure subscription is not mandatory for creating a VSTS account. However, VSTS only serves as an online code repository with hosted build and release agents. To build a custom build or release agent or for creating an environment ...