Azure DevOps
Plan
Who ? New DevOps person
Ask IT to install / replicate / update latest version https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/features-timeline#server-build-numbers
Test before http://w2k19ado19:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection
Compatibility with .Net core 3.1 and lower
Strategy
Clean useless everything in prod
Builds
Branches
Agents
Replicate PROD to TEST
Think and build
New agents
Can be created on existing servers if need be
May need to create servers
Define acceptance criterias / things that need to work to pass
Document every step
Test
Agents
History
Check-ins
Integration tests
When testing, be careful of shared locations / azure repo
Check builds with people using them
Advanced installer pipelines
Azure credentials / principal
Once validated, during weekend
Replicate PROD to NEWPROD
Redo all the work done on TEST on NEWPROD
Review and iterate if need be
Once ready, decommission PROD, point devs to NEWPROD
Subtopic
Investigate
Can we have agents in the cloud while using Azure DevOps Server (on-premise)
Azure test plans