Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Azure DevOps
Legacy names Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Visual Studio Online (VSO), Team Foundation Service
Cloud-hosted software development lifecycle platform providing Agile work tracking, Git and TFVC source control, CI/CD pipelines, test management, and package hosting.
Naming timeline
- Team Foundation Service
Launched at Microsoft BUILD 2012 as the cloud-hosted counterpart to on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) on 'tfs.visualstudio.com'.
- Visual Studio Online (VSO)
Rebranded to Visual Studio Online at Connect() 2013 as Microsoft expanded cloud-hosted ALM, Git repositories, and build services.
- Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
Renamed to Visual Studio Team Services to clarify its role as a team collaboration and DevOps platform distinct from IDE subscriptions.
- Azure DevOpsCurrent name
Rebranded to Azure DevOps Services on 'dev.azure.com', modularizing capabilities into Azure Boards, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts.
What is Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) called now?
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is now called Azure DevOps, with the latest change on 10 September 2018 (Service Rebrand & Modularization). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Visual Studio Online (VSO), Team Foundation Service. Cloud-hosted software development lifecycle platform providing Agile work tracking, Git and TFVC source control, CI/CD pipelines, test management, and package hosting. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- Azure DevOps Services
- Azure Boards
- Azure Pipelines
- Azure Repos
- Azure Test Plans
- Azure Artifacts
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*) | Microsoft.VisualStudio/account Microsoft.DevOpsInfrastructure/pools https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/* |
|---|---|
| Azure CLI (az) / PowerShell | az devops az pipelines az boards az repos az artifacts |
| Entra ID / Azure RBAC Roles | Azure DevOps Administrator Project Collection Administrator Project Administrator |
| Terraform Resources (azurerm_*) | azuredevops_project azuredevops_git_repository azuredevops_build_definition azurerm_devops_infrastructure_pool |
Legacy 'https://<org>.visualstudio.com' endpoints, 'Microsoft.VisualStudio/account' billing resources, 'az devops' CLI commands, and 'azuredevops_*' Terraform resources remain fully operational.
Notes & disambiguation
- Originally launched in preview as Team Foundation Service in 2012, rebranded to Visual Studio Online (VSO) in November 2013, and renamed to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) in November 2015 before rebranding and modularizing into Azure DevOps Services on September 10, 2018.
- The September 2018 rebrand decomposed the monolithic VSTS suite into five modular services—Azure Boards, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts—that teams can adopt individually or together alongside GitHub.
- Existing organization URLs using the legacy 'https://<org>.visualstudio.com' domain remain supported and redirect seamlessly alongside 'https://dev.azure.com/<org>', while REST APIs, the 'az devops' CLI extension, and the 'azuredevops_*' Terraform provider maintain full compatibility.
Sources & official documentation
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