Mature product with helpful marketplace
January 28, 2026
Mature product with helpful marketplace

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Azure DevOps
We use Azure DevOps for our build and deployment pipelines. This includes building mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms and uploading these to the respective platform stores.
Pros
- Is a mature CI/CD environment
- Has many helpful marketplace applications
- Is easy to maintain and work with
Cons
- Yaml syntax can be hard to work with
- Convertion of visual implementations converted to yaml is not always intuitive
- Release pipelines are not automatically a part of the source repository, which means you have to export this for backup and versioning.
- The possibility to just start a build for a specific platform has helped us a lot on our mobile project. We used to set up everything on a development machine and build the applications manually which meant that during the build times we couldn't do anything else on that machine. Also if we forgot some setting this would mean that we would have to restart the build and using even more time on the manual builds. It was a great relief to implement our build pipelines, where we didn't have to remember any settings, as the pipeline would be set up for a particular environment that was part of the pipeline instructions. On avaerage this helped us save between 20-40 minutes whenever we needed to release a new build. Also because the release pipeline was set up to automatically upload the mobile app to the platform app store, we could just forget about the build/release and just inform our testers that a new version of the app was on its way.
- Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
We would use App Center for distributing our app to testers, and we could implement the same functionality as was handled by App Center, and as far as I remember we even had some automatic conversion of our jobs from App Center. After the conversion, we could see that Azure DevOps had much more functionality, which helped us to firther improve the funtionality of our build and release procedures.
Do you think Azure DevOps delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Azure DevOps's feature set?
Yes
Did Azure DevOps live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Azure DevOps go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Azure DevOps again?
Yes

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