Azure DevOps is a Software as a service (SaaS) platform from Microsoft that provides an end-to-end DevOps toolchain for developing and deploying software. It also integrates with IBM Z DevOps products/offerings such as IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz), Dependency Based Build (DBB) & Urbancode Deploy (UCD) and is a great option for orchestrating a DevOps toolchain. 

 

The key features of Azure DevOps are Boards, Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts; some of which are shown during the course of this recording.

 

This video demonstrates how you can use Azure DevOps to build and release a z/OS COBOL application by integrating with the DBB product from the IBM Z DevOps portfolio.