Once you pick your base VM, you can add artifacts to it. Use a Base image – which would have all the tools and settings preinstalled and configured to quickly create a VM.When provisioning a VM in a lab, you are able to go two different routes: You can also create your own and make your Git repo available to your DevTest lab. Microsoft provides a set of Artifacts that you can get access to when defining your lab. Actions that you want to run on the VM – such as cloning a repoĪrtifacts contain instructions that are run when the VM is deployed.Tools that you want to install on the VM – such as agents, Fiddler, and Visual Studio.Artifacts can handle multiple things, such as: Once you pick your VM, you are able deploy and configure components to that VM through something called an Artifact. But you can also create policies for your team that restrict VM sizes and also the base images. By default, you get access to all the same images that are available to you when creating “regular” Azure VMs. With DevTest Labs, you are able to Create VMs and join them to Azure Virtual Networks. If you haven’t attended our previous sessions, be sure to go to our website and view the recordings. So if you’ve followed along our webcast series, you are able to apply the concepts that you’ve learned and add DevTest labs to your process. DevTest Labs also enables you to create policies to automatically shut down and start VMs.ĭevTest labs have great integration with Team Services build and release management. DevTest Labs makes it easier to control costs by allowing you to set policies on your lab – such as number of virtual machines per user and number of VMs per lab. But even then, teams may spend a lot of time configuring these environments and in some cases, you may not have the most cost-effective procedures in place and you may be paying for resources that are not being used.Īzure DevTest Labs helps developers and testers quickly create environments in Azure while minimizing waste and controlling costs. This is done through Azure’s self-service and cost efficient model. As your teams go through and complete their iterations, we’ve proven that having access to Azure resources, helps them provision and manage their environments. As you and your team start using Azure to support your DevOps initiatives, you may find yourself looking for a way to control costs and provide your team a way to easily create, start/stop, and tear-down environments.
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