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Azure DevOps Services
Formerly VSTS

Overview

What is Azure DevOps Services?

Azure 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.

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Recent Reviews

Azure DevOps with SAFe

10 out of 10
January 09, 2024
We are following SAFe practices by using Azure DevOps starting from PI planning to retrospective. We are using all features starting from …
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ADO - an all encompassing tool.

8 out of 10
June 06, 2023
We use ADO for a wide range of things. We create work items in there, essentially being a unique number that we can associate with a …
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DevOps for the Win

10 out of 10
May 20, 2023
Incentivized
We use Azure DevOps to host our code repository. This has helped make it easy to integrate with Visual Studio to be able to write code and …
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Pricing

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Azure Artifacts

$2

Cloud
per GB (first 2GB free)

Basic Plan

$6

Cloud
per user per month (first 5 users free)

Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted

$15

Cloud
per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Azure Pipeline Tutorial | Azure Pipeline Deployment | Azure DevOps Tutorial | Edureka Rewind - 3

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Product Details

What is Azure DevOps Services?

Azure 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, along with the basic plan which includes:
  • Azure Pipelines: automatically builds and tests code, combines continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
  • Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
  • Azure Repos: Unlimited private Git repos
  • Azure Artifacts: 2 GB free per organization
The Basic + Azure Test Plans bundle can be used to allow users to test and ship with confidence using manual and exploratory testing tools.

Azure DevOps Services Video

Introduction to Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Services Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Azure 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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Azure DevOps Services are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Ruth Carson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our main projects have been developed under the excellent operations of this product. Deployment and testing of new applications has been great step ahead since we deployed this tool. Integration with other Azure services has been successful with top-notch results that have promoted faster production growth. It is easy to learn how this product operates even when you are fresher.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
ADO is well suited for the visibility of day-to-day tasks and responsibilities as well as things such as Features, user stories, etc. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any scenario where it might not be well suited, as you can customize ADO to your liking to a degree.
Ben Friedberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Definitely great for developing .net applications and keeping track of a backlog in a SCRUM environment. I think managing a backlog and the associated schedule are also very strong.

I would think that managing an application with a non-microsoft environment would be less appropriate (ie: a node.js back-end application with a react front end, for instance...)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Azure DevOps was a one-stop solution for sprint planning, Test planning Pipeline integration as we have dev, test, and sandbox env and wanted to have the latest/clean code in all env. It was also helpful in creating dashboards showing daily progress by developing charts, burn-down graphs, defect tracking, and follow-ups.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Scenarios where it is suited:

1. Separating the builds into specific purposes into different pipelines
2. Automatically performing dependency checks, deploying the build and running tests on it
3. Tracking the status of different stages

Scenarios where it is less appropriate:

1. Companies which work on the waterfall model
2. Companies that don't utilize CI/CD
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure DevOps Services provide many different useful services, some of which I'm using is the Azure boards and pipelines. It is very useful to keep track of the status of each task within projects. The query function is also useful to check on tasks per person/status easily. However, the UI can be more user-friendly.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure DevOps is great for agile software development with larger teams as the included features for managing user stories, sprints, and backlogs allow larger dev teams to more easily plan, track, and deliver software releases. It is also great for CI/CD because of the options for automating build, testing, and deployment processes. The integration with various Azure services makes it easy to deploy in cloud environments, and therefore it is an ideal tool for us as we use Microsoft Azure extensively for hosting our business applications. It's less useful for smaller projects or individual developers as many of the features will simply never be used, and there are more lightweight tools available. There are also better tools available for task tracking in non-software development projects or if your organization relies heavily on non-Microsoft products.
May 20, 2023

DevOps for the Win

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
KANBAN BOARDS Easiest to use and to make it easy to project manage. Able to place code for the tasks within the Boards. CODE REPOSITORY Great way to keep code in a cloud-based environment. Easy to use with Visual Studio and to be able to manipulate any code quickly and easily.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's great to use when you use Scrum, Repos, and CI/CD. This way, you don't need multiple applications, but you can just use Azure DevOps. For development, I find it pretty good. You can link your items to your Pull request, and you will be able to see what changes have been made. The only downside is that if you want to make your board visible to a lot of stakeholders, it won't be that easy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure DevOps Services is a great service. Its function as a code repository is great, and its integration with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code lets you work in a natural way from these tools. MS Teams integration exists as far as we test it requires an Azure subscription, so it does not apply to the free 5 user tier.

We have been using it for at least 5 years and it's rock-solid in its function and always adds new options and features. We started using it because of its free 5 user private repositories function. Now GitHub does the same (and it's also from Microsoft) but Azure DevOps Services offers more options and tools, so we will stick with this service.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- project management for Azure Board - code management for Azure repo - continuous integration and continuous delivery we have Azure pipelines - Artifact management we do have Azure Artifact - Test case management we have Azure test cases
Dilip kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Well Suited:
To Automate End to End Solution on any cloud.
Deploying End to End product with End to End Testing.
Maintaining all the Team's Efforts, bit much in Agile Methodology.

Less Appropriate:
Using Extra Software's when required is bit hard to Integrate.


Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As the other project tool management it is good because of the part of Azure family. Being a Microsoft tools it is quite compatible with the other azure products. Azure DevOps is very useful for the operational project to create all the user stories with the same task including various ad-hoc tasks
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure DevOps is well suited as a single platform for all DevOps processes. It has everything for a product from the repository, work items board, pipelines, test plans and execution, artifacts, etc. It has also a range of project numbers and pipeline execution time for free each month to help new developers or startups. It is appropriate for teams without DevOps members and standards.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our case, Azure DevOps services is well suited with applications hosted on Azure, such as D365, on-premises or custom Applications are hard to implement, different aspects won't work properly. We are still new to using it, maybe we haven't found the best way to apply it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
You can find the whole IT project lifecycle management in one place, including project management, code versioning, build and CI-CD pipelines, alongside with testing features and bug tracking.
You also have very useful out of the box dashboards that can also easily be customized, so that you can follow your project insights.
I also used - and recommend - another Microsoft product, built on Azure DevOps services, that is dedicated to Mobile Apps DevOps management, and that is really useful : AppCenter.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
All Microsoft ecosystem products are well integrated and support easier build automation. Especially if you use TFS and Visual Studio, this is very well suited. They are flexible in bringing open-source software build supports and have a great marketplace with lots of Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS) extensions available.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
if you need a CI/CD pipeline for your company, especially if you have already been using Microsoft Software Development Suite, Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS) is a very good choice. You can build a release pipeline very easily and deploy your applications very quickly. They are also easy to maintain, especially if you are a big company.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited for large and distributed teams, developing cloud-native applications in a fast fail-fast approach. It will enable seamless development and support different platforms in integrations. It is of less value if the teams are small and located together and also in cases where the application runs on legacy software.
Sean Patterson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure DevOps provide a great resource when you want a "soup to nuts" approach to building software and tracking its deployments and updates. Using the project board to create stories and tasks, you can easily create code branches in which to do the work, which provides a great audit trail to when bugs were fixed or features completed. By using the pipelines, you can allow automation to deploy completed work, track its history, and easily roll back if needs be.
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