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    Azure DevOps

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAzure DevOps (formerly VSTS, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System) is an agile development product that is an extension of the Microsoft Visual Studio architecture. Azure DevOps includes software development, collaboration, and reporting capabilities.

    $2

    per GB (first 2GB free)

    Azure Pipelines

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AUsers can automate builds and deployments with Azure Pipelines. Build, test, and deploy Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++, .NET, Android, and iOS apps. Run in parallel on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Azure Pipelines can be purchased standalone, but it is also part of Azure DevOps Services agile development planning and CI/CD suite.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure DevOpsAzure Pipelines
    Editions & Modules
    Azure Artifacts
    $2
    per GB (first 2GB free)
    Basic Plan
    $6
    per user per month (first 5 users free)
    Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted
    $15
    per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)
    Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted
    $40
    per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
    Basic + Test Plan
    $52
    per user per month
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    Azure DevOpsAzure Pipelines
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure DevOpsAzure Pipelines
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Pipelines
    The tools are very similar - but Azure Pipelines work best for Azure-based products are better suited for the stack. For our engineers, we could switch between all the various continuous integration/deployment tools without much issues, but it makes sense to use the stack …
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    Would buy again
    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Apache Maven
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure DevOps Server
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Apache Maven
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    Enterprises
    Azure DevOps Server
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    Gradle Build Tool (Open Source)
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    User Ratings
    Azure DevOpsAzure Pipelines
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (74 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.4
    (13 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.1
    (11 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Azure DevOpsAzure Pipelines
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure DevOps works well when you’ve got larger delivery efforts with multiple teams and a lot of moving parts, and you need one place to plan work, track it properly, and see how everything links together. It’s especially useful when delivery and development are closely tied and you want backlog items, code and releases connected rather than spread across tools. Where it’s less of a fit is for small teams or simple pieces of work, as it can feel like more setup and process than you really need, and non-technical users often struggle with the interface. It also isn’t great if you want instant, easy programme-level views or a very visual planning experience without putting time into configuration.
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    It is good tool if you are doing continuous improvements in your code and you wish it goes live whenever you push code to GitHub. So integrating Azure Pipeline, it automatically does CI/CD in the background once you push code/merge code and it is live in few minutes. It also does some automated tests if you have wrote scripts
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Utilize Git as a repository to share work between multiple users
    • Ability to configure Pipelines to build containers to run virtual deployments and testing scripts.
    • Split individual tasks and relate to master documents for quick navigation and ability to see overall picture of project.
    • Track status of each task
    • Integrate with Git to utilize branches, merging, approvals, history, etc.
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    • Integration with SonarQube
    • Integration with Azure DevOps
    • Integration with GitHub
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • I did mention it has good visibility in terms of linking, but sometimes items do get lost, so if there was a better way to manage that, that would be great.
    • The wiki is not the prettiest thing to look at, so it could have refinements there.
    • It could improve the search slightly better.
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    • The errors which we got sometimes are not clearly enough.
    • There are some let's say hidden options, they could be more visible
    • When the process is running we have to remember about manually refreshing to see the current status because it doesn't work automatically
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    I don't think our organization will stray from using VSTS/TFS as we are now looking to upgrade to the 2012 version. Since our business is software development and we want to meet the requirements of CMMI to deliver consistent and high quality software, this SDLC management tool is here to stay. In addition, our company uses a lot of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, Asp.net, etc, and since VSTS/TFS has proved itself invaluable to our own processes and is within the Microsoft family of products, we will continue to use VSTS/TFS for a long, long time.
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    Microsoft
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    It's a great help to get more information about new feature release and stay updated on what the dev team is working on. I like how easy it is to just login and read through the work items. Each work item has basic details: Title, Description, Assigned to, State, Area (what it belongs to), and iteration (when it’s worked on). See image above.They move through different states (New → Discovery → Ready for Prod → etc.).
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    When we've had issues, both Microsoft support and the user community have been very responsive. DevOps has an active developer community and frankly, you can find most of your questions already asked and answered there. Microsoft also does a better job than most software vendors I've worked with creating detailed and frequently updated documentation.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Was not part of the process.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Planner is used by project managers and IT service managers across our organization for task tracking and running their team meetings. Azure DevOps works better than Planner for software development teams but might possibly be too complex for non-software teams or more business-focused projects. We also use ServiceNow for IT service management and this tool provides better analysis and tracking of IT incidents, as Azure DevOps is more suited to development and project work for dev teams.
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    Microsoft
    We have used the GitHub CI/CD. Earlier we were using the Azure Pipelines but after GitHub had their actions, we integrated that for CI/CD. It runs the tests and makes a production build which can be live. GitHub CI/CD is more useful because we have to make script only once then just by few changes we can deploy it onto Azure, AWS, Google anywhere so we found it more convenient
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • We have saved a ton of time not calculating metrics by hand.
    • We no longer spend time writing out cards during planning, it goes straight to the board.
    • We no longer track separate documents to track overall department goals. We were able to create customized icons at the department level that lets us track each team's progress against our dept goals.
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    Microsoft
    • we have had outages from Azure in the past
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