Azure DevOps is a comprehensive suite of tools from Microsoft that supports software development and DevOps practices. It includes several components:

1. Azure Boards: This tool offers agile planning, tracking, and discussion capabilities for software projects. It is ideal for managing work items, backlogs, and sprint planning.

2. Azure Repos: Provides Git repositories or Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) for source control of your code.

3. Azure Pipelines: Enables Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for automatically building, testing, and deploying your applications. It supports multi-platform applications and can deploy to different types of environments.

4. Azure Test Plans: A suite of tools for testing your applications, including manual and exploratory testing tools.

5. Azure Artifacts: Allows teams to share packages such as Maven, npm, NuGet, and more from public and private sources and integrate package sharing into your CI/CD pipelines.

Azure DevOps is designed for collaboration and efficiency in software development projects, offering cloud-hosted pipelines for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can integrate with a variety of tools and services and is customizable to suit different workflows and development practices.