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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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The use of the scrum-like board, which can be customized to your liking.
  • Excellent linking and visibility across items in ADO e.g. user stories, features, test cases, tasks, etc.
  • Storing Test Cases.
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It makes it super easy to create build and deploy pipelines
  • It has built in connectors for most of Azure
  • It ingrates well with GitHub
  • The Azure service connection's secrets expire annually by default. Not a big deal, but it's a little annoying when builds start to fail because of an expired connection.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Manage features and tasks seamlessly.
  • Defect management is customizable.
  • CI/CD pipeline support.
  • Test Automation integration with open-source tools and technology.
  • Integration to Service Now.
  • More reporting capabilities.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Dependency check for builds
  • Deploy the builds in the respective environments
  • Run the tests in different stages within Azure DevOps
  • When I cancel a release, it asks for adding comments however, finding that comment later is difficult, the automated emails shared for each build do not contain the comments as well.
  • The UI/UX can be improved to be more intuitive
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keep track of working tasks across organization.
  • Set up automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Overview/detailed view of overall working progress.
  • UI can be more user-friendly.
  • Navigation between tasks can be smoother.
  • Warning before leaving the page when there's a draft can be useful.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracking of user stories, bugs, and dev tasks, which allows our devs and business analysts to collaborate.
  • Automated and better-controlled software deployments.
  • DevOps has improved how our devs handle version control of their code (fewer conflicts).
  • The sheer number of features can be overwhelming for new users!
  • Better integration with external tools such as our service management platform.
  • Setting up build configs and pipelines can be tricky for first-timers.
May 20, 2023

DevOps for the Win

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Project management.
  • Code repository.
  • Integration with visual studio.
  • Testing functionality.
  • It could be hard to configure for newcomers.
  • Make it easier to integrate boards with teams.
Hugo Martínez Arroyo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Visual orchestration of CI/CD process.
  • Track of current/last satisfactory delivered to environments.
  • Open to connecting to different Azure/AWS services to deliver software.
  • Improvement in metrics and dependencies.
  • Improve the pricing for more than one build agent at a time.
  • Connection to Power BI.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The scrum board is pretty good.
  • CI/CD.
  • Repos
  • For PM, it's not really easy to bulk import a lot of items.
  • The search in code does not always find some things.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Azure Board to project management
  • Azure pipelines to automation in your project
  • Azure test cases to manage your test cases management
  • improvement in dashboard
  • improvement in repository access
  • improvement in Azure artifact management
Dilip kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Azure Boards to Assign tasks, User stories to team members and track their time so easily.
  • Azure Repos used to store all the code used from Development phase to Production Phase.
  • Azure Pipelines - Great feature to deploy the products with End to End testing.
  • Automating any kind of solution/problem on Azure Cloud using PowerShell/CLI scripting.
  • Security of the Third Party Plugins Integrated with the Pipelines.
  • Notification of the Tasks which are getting closer in time.
  • Can Improve in terms of integrating few more required software.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Project code pipeline service.
  • Good tool for Agile practices
  • Test Plans
  • Clean n clear UI
  • Board could be more advanced
  • Pipelines should support advance tasks like database migration
  • Merging conflicts in tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • makes Agile collaboration easy
  • DevOps made "easy" (after a learning time)
  • very clear and intuitive UI
  • very large set of connectors/integrations/extensions
  • Office 365 integration (Teams and Sharepoint)
  • plenty of training/documentation resources, and large community of users
  • the online documentation on Microsoft Developer Network should be clearer and easier to read, even for senior users
  • advanced configuration is hard to understand
  • product features changes can sometimes surprise you
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Microsoft ecosystem with one-stop solution for Agile/CICD
  • Easier integration with IDE
  • UI-based/YAML both pipeline formats supported
  • Very flexible and supports all kind of deployment
  • Should support non-Microsoft and open-source ecosystems in an easier way
  • License costs
  • Scrum boards and sprint analytics can be improved to be on par with the market
  • Notification and workflow customization should be flexible
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Azure DevOps is great at managing and securing git repos. Reviewing pull requests and seeing diffs is great. You can even communicate back and forth with your team members right there in the code review screen.
  • Pipelines is a powerful feature for allowing you to deploy to anywhere (cloud, on prem, etc.) You can secure your pipelines and track your artifacts with ease.
  • Boards is a great tool for managing your work task as well as associating your commits with the work item.
  • I love Azure DevOps. I can't think of anything that requires improvement.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Azure DevOps bundles all the useful tools together in a seamless way.
  • Sprint boards, Code repositories, Pipelines etc. all can be managed from a single application.
  • Facilitates easy collaboration between technical members and business or product owners.
  • Facilitates parity between different environments by providing a single source of truth for all pipelines.
  • Azure DevOps Sprint boards can be improved, similar to Jira (this can be my bias).
  • Teams and Azure DevOps integration can be improved in-terms of updates of stories or tasks.
  • Pipeline job logs and their web console views can be improved.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
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