Hello and welcome. My name is Ben Lambert and I'll be your instructor for this course. A bit about me. I started developing software before the modern cloud existed. And during that time I've been fortunate enough to work on a wide variety of projects. Projects spanning programming languages, operating systems, and cloud platforms. Through this course, I'm hoping to share some of the lessons that I've learned during that time. 

Should you want to ask a specific question, you can reach out to our support team by using the e-mail address support@cloudacademy.com and one of our Cloud experts will reply. Source control repositories are an important part of software development. They ensure that data can always be recovered and they also enable continuous integration. Azure DevOps includes features common to modern software development such as source control repositories, continuous integration pipelines, agile planning tools, and more.

This course covers several topics which fall under the umbrella of configuring repositories for Azure DevOps. The content in this course will cover the following topics; integrating GitHub repositories with Azure DevOps Pipelines, configuring permissions in source control repositories, configuring tags to organize source control repositories, recovering data using Git commands, and purging data from source control. 

Before taking this course, there are some things that you'll want to already know. First, you should be comfortable using Git. Second, you should be familiar with Azure and more specifically Azure DevOps. As a content creator, the only way to improve content is through your feedback. So, positive or negative, if you have any feedback that you'd like to share, you can do that by emailing support@cloudacademy.com. Now, if you're ready to begin, then I will see you in the first lesson.