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Learn about authentication in Azure DevOps

Learn about authentication in Azure DevOps

- In Azure DevOps, there are several ways to authenticate depending on the services that we are connecting to. In the case of Azure DevOps organizations and project, we can invite users with Microsoft or GitHub accounts, or we can integrate Azure Active Directory in order to add users from our Azure tenant. This will let us have tighter control over the access to our Azure DevOps organization and enforce policies, such as conditional access policies, in order to enhance security. You may recall from a previous lesson that we can use conditional access policies to enforce the usage of multifactor authentication as well as to block access from certain locations or devices. For Azure repos, there are several methods you can use to authenticate besides just using your username and password. One of the most common methods, it's using SSH, which should be pretty familiar to you if you have set up Linux virtual machines in Azure.…

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