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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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10 out of 10
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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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Azure DevOps/VSTS for the entire agile approach to software development at the organization I work for. We use Azure Boards for managing work in sprints, providing us with live features for planning & retrospectives. We use the Azure Repos feature for Git version control of our code and for PR processes, and pipelines & releases for building, linting, and testing code & deploying code to multiple environments via a continuous integration approach. We use Azure Artifacts to host our NuGet packages to be used by multiple projects for code reusability.
  • Git repositories feature is fully featured with a friendly web interface.
  • Azure pipelines & releases are very flexible for CI/CD practices.
  • Azure Boards allows linking work items to code and for a closer relationship between code & the sprint rather than using a secondary piece of software like JIRA/Trello.
  • User interface looks nice but it can often be quite hard to find things that you need.
  • Many features are now being ported over to GitHub, in a more fleshed-out way (e.g. GitHub Actions), after the Microsoft acquisition.
  • Documentation can be limited.
Primarily best for Microsoft dev houses (C#/.NET, TypeScript/JavaScript). Provides all the features you'd expect for an agile development workflow all in one package.
Azure DevOps provides a full workflow from planning through to development through to production. After the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, GitHub is becoming more fully-featured with the features being ported becoming more polished in the transition. Both are great services, but it might be worth comparing and considering the option of GitHub.
Is relatively straight forward, but has some strange UX decisions in places and can be quite awkward to find certain pieces of functionality. For more advanced features like Pipelines, documentation can be sparse and hard to find.
Kyle Kochtan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure DevOps is currently used across the organization. Currently not all groups and departments are utilizing it however we are in the process of rolling out to these groups. Azure DevOps has become our go to application for development. We are using it for full development life cycle, code repository, testing, deployment and verification.
  • Once set up it makes deployments to various environments a breeze
  • YAML backend is a huge plus
  • Large groups can work on the same solution seamlessly
  • More streamlined set up of CI/CD
  • Better error messaging to explain why sometimes a build is successful and sometimes not
  • Easier set up of deployment tools
Azure DevOps is by far the leader out there. If you are a Microsoft shop there is no need to look elsewhere. This will handle everything you have with ease and then some. If you have older code then you may need to build some customizations to make it work but anything recent is seamless.
  • Azure DevOps has allowed us to be much more agile with our deployments allowing us to save lots of money by not having to involve numerous teams to do deployments.
  • This has been a positive ROI as it allows our developers to manage the full life cycle.
  • We can now do break fix immediately and not when other users can get to it.
Azure DevOps is a powerful, complex cloud application. As such there are a number of things it does great and something where there is room for improvement. One of those areas would be in usability. In my opinion it relies too much on search. There is no easy way to view all projects or to group them in a logical way. You need to search for everything.
Azure DevOps has both excellent paid support from Microsoft and plentiful support online. Microsoft has plentiful sites that show step by step how to do many functions and features. The forums are well stocked with lots of useful information and there are many third-party sites that can easily be found to help out as well.
We have utilized multiple products in the past such as SVN, Visual Source Safe, Team Foundation Server, GitHub and more. For end to end full life cycle development none of them could come close to Azure DevOps. We are in the process of migrating everything for these old platforms over to Azure DevOps.
Vinicius Lima | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Azure DevOps to manage all our projects across the whole organization. The project manager usually translates all software requirements to Azure DevOps and assign appropriate tasks to programmers. It is a very flexible tool to implement DevOps methodology. The project development is followed through the platform, as well as the team performance.
  • Easy representation of software requirements in user stories and tasks.
  • It allows the tracking of activities and team performance
  • It allows interaction between team members in a specific task
  • You can use only a few tools to complement your existent workflow
  • There is a free version for small teams (up to 5 users)
  • Some small improvements could be done in the user interface.
  • Sometimes the performance is low (some requests/queries are slow)
Azure DevOps allows you to start with DevOps methodology in a fast and easy way. The graphical interface is great and it is suitable to small and big teams. It really helps you to manage projects, tasks and teams.
  • We have now a better project management platform.
  • The communication between team members and project owner has been significantly improved.
  • Azure DevOps provides a code repository where you can store your code without worries.
The interface is great and user-friendly. Only the performance is not so good sometimes, depending on the query.
The support is great. Attendants are very friendly and, so far, all requests and responses were satisfactory.
Azure DevOps was developed to implement the DevOps methodology. Other products, such as Redmine, are usually adapted to the methodology and it nevers fully complies with it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My department utilizes Microsoft Visual Studio to create workflows for the system, organization, and application process flows.
  • Great for documenting process flows.
  • Great for developing org charts.
  • Great for mapping out ideas and brainstorming.
  • I'd like to be able to set up the automatic spacing and organizing workflows to flow from top to bottom.
Wonderful for process mapping.
  • Positive: System development efficiency.
  • Positive: Process mapping made easier.
Mind manager has additional components which allow you to not just map out process workflows but also project plan.
Microsoft SQL Server, OnBase by Hyland, Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)
5000
Development, business, HR
I'm not sure. It's a very large company.
  • Process mapping
  • Organization structuring
  • Brainstorming
  • brainstorming
  • I'm not sure what else we could use it for.
It's a great tool for process mapping.
Not Sure
I was not part of the decision process for purchase.
I wouldn't, great product.
  • Don't know
  • We did not encounter any serious issues.
Was not part of the process.
I do not deal directly with support, the IT department does.
No
My IT department works with Microsoft support.
  • Mapping process flows
  • Brainstorming and throwing in symbols
  • Aligning arrows.
Great system easy to use.
January 15, 2018

All under one umbrella

Swagata Bhattacharyya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used across the organization. We use it for tracking tasks as well as for CICD.
  • Task management
  • Capacity Management
  • CICD
  • Once you add a new sprint, it does not automatically reflect in the left panel of work items. You have to select the iteration under default teams settings. This is a bit confusing and difficult to figure out if you don't know.
  • When a task is marked as Resolved, the remaining time does not become 0 like it happens when you close the task. It may be a good idea to reset it to 0 for resolved tasks as well.
  • The system allows you to close a user story which has open tasks under it. A warning mentioning this while closing the user story will be good.
I believe it can be used in all projects, big or small. All projects are broken down into subtasks and VSTS is a great tool to manage subtasks and capacity.
  • The code version control, tasks, capacity all are in one place. So we don't have to move between tools to get the overall state of the project
  • It allows adding users based on their email addresses, so if tasks are outsourced, it is very easy to include members external to the organization in the project team
  • It can be shared with the client which leads to more transparency
Unlike the other tools I have used, VSTS has everything under one roof. The other tools I have used are specific to a particular requirement like code version control, task management etc. VSTS on the other hand, has all aspects of the project tied together which makes it more useful.
20
Software/web delevopment
  • Adding users to capacity and marking their planned leaves is a great feature
  • Love the way we can have source code control linked with the user stories
  • The burn chart is great to get a progress update at one glance
  • I an revising this review specifically to add this suggestion. We have a globally distributed team who work in different time zones. If you consider this scenario...I am in EST and we have some developers working during India business hours. Each developer works Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm IST and 7 hours capacity per day. On Monday, say at 1pm EST I am looking at the sprint and I see 35 hours for a developer. It will show up as green but it is actually red because his day has already ended and he has 28 hours left for the week. If we can add the time zone or working hours along with the capacity for each user, that will be awesome.
Apart from the time zone issue mentioned in a previous step, everything else works great for our project. We have started using the auto build functionality after checking in the source code which has saved us a lot of time. The iterations help us manage work efficiently. We are very happy with the way we are able to manage the project using VSTS.
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