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Staging area for our practical guidance, giving you an early glimpse into upcoming guidance.

ALM | DevOps Rangers Guidance

Introduction

Welcome to our staging area for our practical guidance, giving you an early glimpse into upcoming guidance. You can find a list of all our published articles here.

Information and views expressed in this guidance, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it.

Chapters

Branching Guidance

The purpose is to build some insightful and practical guidance around branching and merging with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services, to be shared as technical articles.

Start here to edit the branching articles

Completed articles to edit the branching articles

Article	DRAFT	FINAL PUBLICATION
Effective feature isolation on TFVC	DRAFT 4	docs.microsoft.com
Effective TFVC branching strategies for DevOps	DRAFT 3	docs.microsoft.com
SVN to Git migration	DRAFT 4	docs.microsoft.com

DevOps Articles

The purpose is to build some insightful and practical guidance to "rub some DevOps" on Visual Studio Team Services, to be shared as technical articles.

Start here to edit the DevOps articles

Completed articles

Article	DRAFT	FINAL PUBLICATION
Phase rollout of your application with rings	DRAFT 2	docs.microsoft.com
Security Validation CI/CD Pipeline	DRAFT.3	docs.microsoft.com
Phase the features of your application with feature flags	DRAFT 3	docs.microsoft.com

Work in progress

Article	DRAFT	FINAL PUBLICATION
Manage database upgrades	DRAFT 2

Planning Guidance

The purpose is to build some insightful and practical guidance to replace the aging TFS Planning, Disaster Avoidance and Recovery guidance.

GUIDELINES

• Based on TFS Planning, Disaster Avoidance and Recovery guidance guidance
• Reference product documenation where relevant - do not duplicate
• Article format, length, style, and tone to align with technical articles
• Build and review article here. After PO approval, we'll migrate to technical articles

Look at aka.ms/devopsarticles to get a feel of the tone and length of articles and familiarise yourself with ALM-Rangers/Guidance where we will create the first DRAFT.

Article	DRAFT	FINAL PUBLICATION
Understand your options for planning a TFS and VSTS engineering environment
Deploy Team Foundation Server on Azure IaaS
Encourage disaster avoidance in your TFS environment
Explore options for defining your Team project and Team strategy in VSTS

Start here to edit the planning articles

Stories

The purpose is to create articles that give an insight into the transformation of our process, culture, and community, by sharing stories from the field.

Article	DRAFT	FINAL PUBLICATION
Our DevOps transformation	DRAFT	opensource.com
Should we use the ring deployment model, feature flags, or both?	DRAFT	opensource.com

Start here to edit the stories

Work in progress

Article	DRAFT	FINAL PUBLICATION
Our journey of transforming to a DevOps culture	WORK IN PROGRESS
Is DevOps a misnomer for part-time community teams?

Contribute

Contributions to this project are welcome. Here is how you can contribute:

• Submit bugs and help us verify fixes
• Submit pull requests for bug fixes and features and discuss existing proposals

Please refer to Contribution guidelines and the Code of Conduct for more details.