Azure DevOps Services Reviews

A fantastic offering for small development teams

Comments: We've improved a number of key workflows with Azure DevOps and it's proved to be an invaluable addition to our software development cycle.

Pros:

The service provides a lot under the one package, task management, source control, CI/CD, and release pipelines. If you are a small team or just starting off, you'll be able to take advantage of it all for either free, or very little money. It's clearly designed to get teams hooked on Azure and it does this job well.

Cons:

The UI is clunky in places, task management specifically leaves a lot to be desired. While the close integration with source control is fantastic, editing and navigating between tasks take far too long and you're much more likely to avoid doing it or take a lot longer to complete a simple job.

It is a very complete continuous learning program

Comments: It has been an experience more good than bad, we believe that it is a program that deserves to be purchased, to be used, it has several strong aspects when developing or at least complements the work that had already been done and provides new configurations when developing. Compatibility with many applications.

Pros:

It is a program that helps us obtain better ideas when generating new projects within the company. It was crucial for the team to have access to new learning tools and we believe that we were able to obtain this at the time that helped us make development compatible. with other formats. Azure DevOps provides robust continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities, which are crucial for modern software development in our team and in this way we have complemented work with what we already had.

Cons:

We did not like the project manager system that we believe is outdated, it does not have all the tools that we need, therefore in this sense we had to choose to buy other programs that would help us separately with this problem.

You don't get notifications inside of the app so this is worthless

Comments: If you don't care about being up to date about what is going on in your projects, it's brilliant. If you want to know when someone comments on your ticket, don't even bother. Even JIRA onprem does this now?

Pros:

...there is a moment where you think oh maybe there is life beyond Atlassian products and the idea of competition in the market place is good. I suppose the fact that wiki's are included in the price whilst for Atlassian confluence is a whole other paid product is good?

Cons:

It doesn't have the concept of closing a sprint. So items just... remain. You cannot easily move them to the 'new' sprint. You have to think far too hard about administration 'what area is an item in'. Bulk actions are poor. Most chaotically - there are no in app notifications?!?! So you get an email about everything. And you get hundreds of emails. If you are under the age of 35 this is unacceptable really.

Well managed and Centralized DevOps Services

Comments: Overall my personal and professional experience is very good with Azure DevOps. And I use this product on my daily bases

Pros:

It has very user friendly interface and it is very very easy to use. All DevOps Capabilities are available in a single place. Highly Recommended!

Cons:

I didn’t find anything to hate this microsoft product. However, there are certain things that require more improvement.

Tools for doubling productivity

Comments: Many plugins and events, such as git repository updates, can be triggered to run builds and tests automatically. By continuously building and testing, it is possible to detect deviations and defects early and improve the quality and efficiency of development.

Pros:

The functionality can be extended with add-ons; since there are many add-ons, you can do a wide range of things. Being able to do certain things even when engineers are not present also helps to keep the product running stably.

Cons:

I would be happy if the manual to consult when I don't understand the operation is a little more complete.

Top end quality

Comments: Very flat learning curve means that everybody can start working with it right from the start, learning more complex things along the way. As a developer you have better things to do than to learn yet another new product that should just be there to support the "real" work (developing). Devops is perfect from that perspective.

Pros:

Devops is not just devops... it's total devops. A whole suite of things from release management, build automation, time management, ticketing, scrum and task boarding to source repository. I don't think anything is left out. It's all very much connected, which means for instance that creating a new branche can become a new ticket that is automatically placed on a task board etc.

Cons:

I don't think anything is missing, but at some points it's not very intuitive. I still have to search every time to get to specific features of my build and release configuration. Security features are very good, but there too I find myself trying to understand how it works every time again.

Great

Comments: The ability to manage your CI/CD pipeline, your repository, your pull requests and your issues all in one place has made devops very enjoyable to use. It feels like a more mature version of Github.

Pros:

- Pull Requests and Pipelines work very well together. Setting up a branch policies to depend on certain pipelines is very easy. - You can copy any image and past it in any text box, and devops will automatically upload and convert it to an image URL

Cons:

- The inconsistent text composition can be very frustrating. Markdown should be supported everywhere, but it's only available in Pull Requests. - Debugging failing CI builds can be difficult. As far as I know, there's no way to ssh into a container to diagnose the issue. Your only option is to update the yml and hope it works.

Best DevOps in the market

Comments: Excellent piece of Cloud application and highly recommended and very developer friendly.

Pros:

Azure Devops is the best product available in the market, 100% integration with developer tools like Visual Studio and VSCode

Cons:

Bit expensive and only 5 basic level of user licenses are available to us at anytime, there could be room for more flexible license model

Microsoft's one stop shop for planning, task, code, versions and releases management

Comments: If I get a say in the selection of tooling before starting the project, Azure DevOps is my go to.

Pros:

It's a full suite usable directly as is with very little configuration needed to get a jump start. Customizations and integrations are still possible though. I like the work experience better with Azure DevOps board rather than one of the competing backlog/task management suites.

Cons:

The Azure DevOps Boards seems a bit forgotten/sunsetting tool but hopefully there would be still future new features and enhancements to make it even better.Git approvals workflow really should be much more seamless so that either work from developer and approver perspective is only done in Git and automatically reflects to Azure DevOps tasks/work items. Or other way around, approval requests would get populated as task on board and moving it to done column would automatically approve pull request in Git. There is some still unlocked potential there with integration and seamless working experience.

Azure DevOps Services - all you need in one place

Comments: All in all, it is a very good product, I think Microsoft is going in the right direction I just hope they continue to improve it, it's way better than the old Team Foundation Server.

Pros:

Integration with other Microsoft products and the fact that you can do everything in it without having to add anything else, you can manage projects, have source-control, develop software, manage release, integrate automation into your build pipeline, manage manual tests, etc.

Cons:

I wish Test Plans had a cheaper tier or maybe a free plan with basic features, quite pricey this way.

Agrxis Review on Azure DevOps Services

Comments: My overall impression of Azure DevOps Services has been favorable. The platform provides a full range of tools and capabilities for project management and team collaboration. I value the degree of customization offered by the platform since it enables me to modify my workflows to match the unique requirements of my projects. The seamless and useful interfaces with other Microsoft tools and services have also helped me to streamline my work and be more productive. Although the platform is undoubtedly sophisticated, I have found the documentation and community resources to be useful in getting past any roadblocks or difficulties I may have faced.

Pros:

Since I've been utilizing Azure DevOps Services, I must admit that I'm impressed with how it has benefited my team and I as we work on development projects. The feature set of this service that caters to numerous facets of software development, such as project planning, code management, testing, deployment, and monitoring, is what I value the most.When it comes to facilitating smooth communication and coordination between team members, including those who operate remotely, Azure DevOps Services' collaboration tools are very beneficial. We can organize activities and monitor progress effectively thanks to the agile boards' and backlogs' intuitiveness and usability.It's also great that Azure DevOps Services enables continuous integration and deployment, which makes it simpler for us to automate our software delivery pipeline and deliver new features and upgrades on schedule. Additionally, troubleshooting reports and prioritizing capabilities come in handy for quickly detecting and fixing issues as they arise.

Cons:

Despite my appreciation for the variety of features and capabilities provided by Azure DevOps Services, I have occasionally seen documentation that is deficient or ambiguous, making it challenging to debug problems or comprehend how particular features operate. Despite these difficulties, I continue to think of Azure DevOps Services as a useful tool for organizing my projects and working with my team.

Awesome solution to deliver projects at scale

Comments: The experience has been very positive and feedback from my coworkers has been positive in how the tool has helped meet the needs of the broader organization. Given that our team operates in an agile sprint environment, we were able to customize and tailor the tool exactly to our needs so that anyone involved or brought into a project mid way through is able to easily go in and find all the tasks associated with an individual project.

Pros:

I have most liked the ability to record, track and optimize the processes that go into internal collaboration between developers and projects managers. The ability to track the steps and progress of any development projects and the project hierarchy within the front end interface makes it easy to drill down and view details about any given task in the platform.

Cons:

The account manager who has been assigned to help us with customer support has not always been responsive and thorough in providing answers to questions that have some complexities. It was not ideal when needing a faster turn around time for specific development and product needs.

Dev Ops is a must to meet deliverables

Comments: Overall, I would highly recommend this product especially if your organization already uses Microsoft. The integration to other Microsoft products/services is seamless. Being able to connect to your companies active directory and not have to hassle with a user database is a huge plus.

Pros:

As with all other Microsoft products the best part is how easily they all integrate together. Being able to get up and running quickly using an active directory is also a plus. Notifications, workflow, resource management, task assigning, planning sprints, storing document. This tool literally does it all and chances are that if you have an enterprise license with Microsoft you can get this up and running quickly.

Cons:

Planning sprints is a bit of a tedious process. I wouldn't necessarily say this is a con because I dont know if there is a way to change that. Maybe if Dev Ops could make a bulk upload feature or something. Like where you could load a csv file to plan out everything?

Best SDLC management service , ever !!

Comments: Our project delivery time from Design to Release has improved significantly since we started using Azure DevOps.
Devs/Testers can spend more time working on code , than worrying about deploying it

Pros:

1. Requirements, Code , Test Case, Deployment pipeline everything in one place - Thats the best thing I like about Azure Devops 2. Seemless integration with Azure Cloud - you will be able to manage cloud related services in your project easily. 3. Easy to generate Reports, Dashboards etc. Ex: Test Progress report / Pull Request Report / Automated Test Run report. 4. Very user friendly.

Cons:

Organizational view with an ability manage dependencies across different projects would be awesome.

Azure DevOps

Pros:

Great tool for agile software development. We used azure devops to manage our user stories and bugs with Scrum, had our repositories and source control there too. Also the fact that there are plenty of addons (for ex. "Estimate") for it makes azure great tool. Also it is free for 5 users

Cons:

There are some minor bugs and this bugs take too much time to be resolved. Customer support isn't great

An unmissable part of the Application Lifecycle Management

Comments: As a DevOps engineeer I help a group of teams with there Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Team Foundation Server (TFS) is an unmissible part in the ALM setup. TFS is very customizable, and you can fast add new projects to the lifecycle to to TFS

Pros:

ease of use clear architecture quick setup easy to customize. From dashboards, to custom Build tasks. Very good at helping you prevent legacy. For example we have over 200 build definitions. These are very good manageable due to the use of Task Groups. Integration with Git version control is first class

Cons:

We don't use the Release module of Team Foundation Server because it misses a lot of features compared to Octopus Deploy

Highly effective service for maintaining code repository, build & release activity

Comments: It becomes very easy to track and monitor all the project level activities from one platform. Ensures the code quality and continuous integration very effective.

Pros:

It is very easy to configure the CI-CD pipelines to make the release build pipelines. Maintaining the efficient code repositories to ease the code management activities. It ensures the different boards for maintaining the different boards across the organization.

Cons:

Some of the best services like Time Tracking and Event based triggers are still not included in this product as we need to import it as extensions.

Devops with Azure Devops

Comments: Better quality of Software, Faster delivery times, automated feedback loops and validation times. Wins all round for different departments.

Pros:

-Build and release pipelines -integrated git repositories -Notifications -Tasks market place -Automated testing and result dashboards on each release Since implementing we have removed almost all manual processes, speeding up delivery times and quality of our products.

Cons:

Some tasks on the marketplace our out of date and dont work, have to be careful what you install and use within a pipeline.

Best suite for Azure shop

Comments: My experience with Azure DevOps is great. Fits like a glove - if you are into Azure. We tried to integrate non-Azure stuff (mostly Open Source that are in no relation with Azure), we had to apply workarounds

Pros:

If your organization uses Azure Cloud and other Azure products, this is the right DevOps service for you. Seamless integration and well knit into the stack. Ability wise you can integrate other products too - but needs decent effort.

Cons:

If your organization is not an Azure shop and you use may be one or 2 products, this is an overkill. You have better equivalent choices in market to pick.

Full platform supporting agile teams

Pros:

Ironic that the company has moved onto VSTS and theres a lot of support online with regards to being an end user. Setup will always be more work for tech teams deploying the product. VSTS has allowed our project teams to analyse business cases running through the full agile process up until allowing QA to set up and start virtualized environments through VSTS. Amazing product which works well with opensource libraries as well when deploying test environments.

Cons:

Being part of the set up team resulted in a few late nights however once deployed to local servers and set up correctly, it is a breeze. Initial support is still fairly new so a team of DevOps engineers is required to troubleshoot installations and configs.

unique pipelines

Comments: automation made easy with CI/CD.

Pros:

I like the fact that every release to the main branch has to go through levels of approval by a senior Developer before it can be finally released to production.

Cons:

Codes shouldn't be allowed to run directly from GitHub, it should be initiated directly from Azure Repos. I mean Azure Repos should be very unique.

All in one DevOps Tool

Comments: Overall it is great tool for DevOps. It has end to end visibility about application Life cycle management.

Pros:

It has all the functions to practice DevOps. It is very to easy to get start and has some free license for trial. I really like the UI.

Cons:

MS release functions every week and sometimes hard to get update the skill in Azure DevOps. Need to improve the UX.

Good but.... AD

Pros:

It's good that this is free for smaller teams. It's easy to use and works well.

Cons:

It's tied into active directory and it's a pain in the ass to manage users. Also trying to turn off the thing was a huge pain.

Azure Devops - Making your agile tasks easier

Pros:

1. Integration with github etc 2. CI CD pipeline is easy to setup and manage 3. Task tracking is very helpful 4. Product backlog tracking and creation is very user friendly

Cons:

1. Can be a bit confusing to new users moving from TFS

A full package

Pros:

It works seamlessly with its own services as well as third party integrations. Reduces a lot of time in developing flows.

Cons:

There is not out of the box way to pass variables from build to release pipeline.