Azure DevTest Labs

VMs that can have lab policies:
- to automatically shut down & start up VMs
- to have caps e.g. max VMs per user or max costs
To be used for e.g.:
- Conduct compatibility and automated testing with reusable environment templates
- Provide virtual machines for hackathons that automatically expire after the event.

Use DevTest Labs in Azure Pipelines

Two use-cases with Azure Pipelines:
- Cheap way to create continuous test environments
  - E.g. for development and test environments
- Create a VM with golden image to execute a specific task e.g. build Erlang/Hack.
During the build/test phase
- you can add ARM templates & supporting files to the build sources
- so that during the release phase the exact configuration used to test with is deployed to production.
You can use the Azure DevTest Labs Tasks extension with tasks such as:
- Create Azure DevTest Labs Environment
  - 💡 You can instead use an ARM template to deploy the environment instead of this task.
- Deploy ARM template to existing Azure DevTest Labs Environment
  - You can provision both Azure PaaS resources & IaaS VMs
Read more: Microsoft documentation