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Setting up your first Azure Repos codebase
Setting up a new repository at an unknown source control vendor or moving a repo to a new one can sometimes seem like a tedious task. Especially with multiple vendors offering different things. I personally like Azure DevOps, part of the cloud computing solution from Microsoft, because they have a lot of infrastructure all baked into one place. Azure Pipelines is one of my favorite things to use to get a free and quite complete pipeline running for my builds and releases. Having my code on Azure Repos as well makes it super easy to build and deploy, since everything is within the Azure environment.
Whether you want to start up a new repo or import one from your current vendor, getting your code to Azure Repos is quite easy and I will show you here how to do both. Make sure to grab yourself an Azure DevOps account first, though.
Setting up your repo
If you don’t have an organization yet on Azure DevOps, you can easily create one in two steps by clicking on the New organization button to the left in your DevOps homepage.
Once you’ve created an organization, you will be greeted with the organization page, where it’s still quite empty. So let’s go ahead and create a project:
