{"id":60985,"date":"2021-02-10T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=60985"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:12:39","slug":"the-azure-devops-demo-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/the-azure-devops-demo-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Azure DevOps Demo Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/azuredevopsdemogenerator.azurewebsites.net\">Azure DevOps Demo Generator<\/a> is a fantastic tool that can help you provision Azure DevOps projects complete with sample data or a starting point. I recently sat down with Nagaraj Bhairaji from the team that built the tool. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Azure DevOps Demo Generator\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YwqKEDOQtf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the name implies, the Azure DevOps Demo Generator is fantastic for spinning up Azure DevOps projects ready to demo or try out. It can be time-consuming to configure a project with everything you need to properly try a feature or work through a demo. The demo generator allows you to skip all that work.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see in the video, there are a lot of templates already in the app that you can choose from. Most are from either the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuredevopslabs.com\/?WT.mc_id=devops-14627-dabrady\">Azure DevOps Labs<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/learn?WT.mc_id=devops-14627-dabrady\">Microsoft Learn<\/a>, but there are plenty of others, including a new collection focused on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cloud-adoption-framework\/overview?WT.mc_id=devops-14627-dabrady\">Cloud Adoption Framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/templates.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/templates-1024x519.png\" alt=\"Azure DevOps Demo Generator templates\" width=\"640\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-60987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/templates-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/templates-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/templates-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/templates.png 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to demos and tutorials, the tool can also be extremely useful for real-world projects. It can be used to configure a brand new Azure DevOps Project with a known, approved starting point.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you may want to start every new .NET project with a standard code structure, an already-configured CI\/CD pipeline, and a set of Epics (work items) to highlight the major stages in a project.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to stick to the templates that are already there, either. Just click the &#8220;Build your template&#8221; link and follow the prompts to create a template from an existing project in your Azure DevOps organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/build-template.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/build-template.png\" alt=\"Build your own templates\" width=\"611\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/build-template.png 611w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/build-template-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get started, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/devops\/demo-gen?WT.mc_id=devops-14627-dabrady\">documentation on Microsoft Docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project is under active development, so if there&#8217;s a feature you&#8217;d like to see, a bug you need fixed, or a template you think the community would benefit from, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/AzureDevOpsDemoGenerator\">you can find the project on GitHub<\/a>. The team would love your input!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Azure DevOps Demo Generator is a fantastic tool that can help you provision Azure DevOps projects complete with sample data or a starting point for a new project. I recently sat down with Nagaraj Bhairaji from the team that built the tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39350,"featured_media":60991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,1,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","category-devops","category-open-source"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Azure DevOps Demo Generator is a fantastic tool that can help you provision Azure DevOps projects complete with sample data or a starting point for a new project. 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