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microsoft/azuredevopslabs
Learn how you can plan smartly, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern development services with Azure DevOps.
A Microsoft-maintained Jekyll site hosting a large set of step-by-step hands-on labs for Azure DevOps (Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, Test Plans) plus third-party integrations like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and SonarQube. It's aimed at people learning or training others on Azure DevOps workflows, not at developers looking for a library or tool to pull into a project.
The lab catalog is genuinely wide — CI/CD for Node/Python/PHP/Java, infra-as-code with Terraform and Ansible, security scanning with GitHub Advanced Security and WhiteSource, each with its own markdown walkthrough and screenshots rather than just a link to docs.microsoft.com. It's still getting pushes as of March 2025, so labs aren't abandoned mid-migration (e.g. VSTS-era labs have been updated to Azure DevOps naming). The whole thing is a self-contained Jekyll site (Gemfile, _config.yml, _layouts) so you can fork it and run your own internal training portal if that's useful to you.
There's no code here in any meaningful sense — the 'Language: CSS' stat is just the homepage template, and the repo's actual product is prose-and-screenshot tutorials, so evaluating it as you would a library doesn't really apply. The homepage source is raw Bootstrap markup hand-inlined into the layout file (carousels, equal-height-column divs, inline styles everywhere) rather than componentized, which makes it painful to extend without copy-pasting more of the same. A lot of labs lean on go.microsoft.com fwlinks and docs.microsoft.com deep links that are outside the repo's control and will rot independently of any update here. Forks (1007) outnumbering stars (916) suggests most engagement is people copying the site structure for their own training deck rather than using it as-is.