Azure Logic Apps can be used to automate steps like sending approval emails. Elie Bou Issa explains automating Azure DevOps with Logic Apps.

The Azure DevOps Services is a cloud offering that offers a quick way for project managers, developers, and infrastructure engineers to set up their project foundation.

The Azure DevOps core services include three components:

• Azure Boards, which include native support for Scrum and Kanban, aims to help project managers plan, track, and collaborate work across teams.
• Azure Pipelines to support continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) while building, testing, and deploying infrastructure and apps artifacts to any cloud platform.
• Azure Repos, which offer a cloud-hosted private Git repository for version control.

Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service to help you schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks and workflows between apps and across enterprises and organizations. A Logic App can be built using the Azure portal, or infrastructure as code.

By the end of this article, you will have a good understanding of leveraging a Logic App for Azure DevOps to automate the create of work items, in addition to creating an automated approval-based workflow using Office 365.

The workflow

Throughout this article, assume a SCRUM master is leading a team of developers to build cloud applications. As user stories are added, several tasks will be created automatically. Once approved by the product owner, the user story will be moved to the development backlog.

Developers have access to a Dev Team area path where they pick the approved user stories to develop and build.

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