Author : MD TAREQ HASSAN | Updated : 2023/07/20
Understanding organization in Azure DevOps
- Organization is a logical container that holds all the projects
- It acts as the top-level entity where you manage and organize all your software development activities
- Creating an Azure DevOps account is essentially setting up an organization
- With an organization, you gain access to the “Azure DevOps Services” platform
Some of the key points about Azure DevOps organizations:
- When you create an Azure DevOps account, you choose a unique name for your organization. This name will be used in your organization’s URL
- Organizations in Azure DevOps have role-based access control, allowing administrators to manage permissions and control
- Each organization has its own billing and licensing settings
- Resources such as build agents, pipelines, artifacts, and service connections are generally shared across projects within the organization
- Administrators can configure various organizational settings, such as security, policies, notifications, and extensions
- Azure DevOps organization can be integrated with other Microsoft services and tools like Azure, Azure AD etc.
Creating New Organization
Go to: https://aex.dev.azure.com and check:
- You don’t have any Organization at all and need to create for first time (it might ask for few information to setup the DevOps organization)
- You already have organization and need to add new organization
Creating new organization:
- Go to: https://aex.dev.azure.com/
- Click: “Create new organization”
- Continue > Continue
- New organization will be created and show up on left panel and “Create a project to get started” will be shown
Connecting Azure AD
Adding Azure AD User to DevOps Group
Creating New User in DevOps Portal
Adding project to organization
- Login to DevOps: https://dev.azure.com/
- Select organization from left panel
- If selected organization does not have any project yet
- “Create a project to get started” will be shown
- Fill up “Project name”, “Description”, and “Visibility”
- If selected organization already have project(s)
- Click “New project” from top right
- Fill up “Project name”, “Description”, and “Visibility”
- If selected organization does not have any project yet
See:
- Project-level permissions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/set-project-collection-level-permissions?view=azure-devops&tabs=preview-page
Deleting organization
- “Organization settings” at the bottom of left panel
- Overview > Delete organization (at bottom)
- Click “Delete” button