The Full Form of VSTS is Visual Studio Team Services.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is a new cloud-based offering that helps the project teams to take care of all the aspects of the process for software development.

Meaning & Importance of VSTS

The best part of VSTS is that you don’t need to install anything, you can either go for a pay-as-you-use or the FREE 5-user license via the visual studio website. Click here to navigate to the visual studio website.

Hence, Microsoft VSTS is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system which helps the entire project team to capture Requirements, Agile /Traditional Project Planning, Work Item management, Version Control, Build, Deployment, and manual Testing all in a single platform.

In simple terms, Microsoft VSTS is Team Foundation Server (TFS) on the cloud.

VSTS is tightly integrated with Visual Studio. NET IDE.

In my previous tutorials on Microsoft TFS, we saw how to use the above-mentioned features on On-Premise servers. In this tutorial, we will see how the same features can be used or extended to perform deployments over the cloud and in particular on the Azure cloud.