Microsoft Azure DevOps vs Spinnaker comparison

Microsoft and Spinnaker are both solutions in the Release Automation category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.2, while Spinnaker is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0. Microsoft holds a 39.6% mindshare in RA, compared to Spinnaker’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Spinnaker users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Azure DevOps

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95% willing to recommend

Spinnaker

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure DevOps and Spinnaker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Spinnaker Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure DevOps

Ranking in Release Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

130

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (2nd), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (1st)

Spinnaker

Ranking in Release Automation

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure DevOps is 39.6%, up from 34.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spinnaker is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Akshat Prakash

Consultant at BP

Apr 10, 2024

Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling

My company has experienced benefits from using it or from recent updates in Azure Pipelines. For instance, we can manage different code versions from the same repository across different environments. We also use feature flags; the code is deployed, but the feature can be made visible to the end user at a later time. Additionally, as part of the deployment, we integrate automated and regression testing, which stops the deployment if testing fails, thus preventing regression bugs. This saves time and increases productivity by reducing the need for manual testing. Lastly, it integrates with the project management aspects, allowing us to link code deployments with project milestones. Azure DevOps supported our shift towards DevOps culture or practices. We shifted to the cloud environment and started migrating from our data centers about eight or nine years back. It has been a long journey. However, we have used Azure DevOps for almost five to six years in every project. We also use automation testing in Azure, so we have an integrated test suite that allows us to perform functional and regression testing effectively via the Azure DevOps system.

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Shubham Chakraworty

Infrastructure Engineer at Infosys

Aug 28, 2023

An open-source solution that can be used to deploy docker containers or docker images to Google Kubernetes Engine

We use Spinnaker to deploy docker containers or docker images to GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) The solution's deployment is pretty easy. If you want to go back to the previous version, the rollback is pretty much easy. Spinnaker makes the developer's life easy with respect to the solution's…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is easy to implement and easy to use."

"All features are good. Pipelines feature is great, and Boards and Artifacts features are also really good. It is really good at what it does. It is very comprehensive, and it has some really great aspects to it. It is very easy. It is probably one of the easiest to use DevOps tools in the industry, and it is well integrated."

"The pricing seems to be reasonable."

"Monitoring is most valuable."

"Provides agile management of projects."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the CI/CD pipeline, and the testing automation."

"It's a great product for the CI/CD process."

"The most valuable feature is automation with version control."

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"Spinnaker is used for automating a variety of deployment tasks, infrastructure, provisioning tasks, and all kinds of things."

"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."

"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its intuitive interface for converting existing Kubernetes specs into working pipelines. It's easy for anyone to deploy anything on any environment when they need to test or deploy for a specific merchant or use case. Instead of going into the specs and changing different variables, they can do it through the UI, which is very useful."

Cons

"They should expand it from just a PC, software, or server development platform to other kinds of software or engineering systems so that it is not necessarily built around a normal PC with a server. I would like to see the ability to write my own scripts in my own compiled program or online. Right now, there are things that you can do in the user interface, but you can't do them programmatically and vice versa. I want to see them both. If I can do it in a script, I should be able to do it from the user interface, and if I can do it in the user interface, I should be able to do it in a script."

"I would like to see improvement in the metrics and the dependencies."

"It is essential that you get buy-in from the top management down to everyone in the pipeline."

"I would like to see better interoperability with the agile scaling frameworks."

"The solution's roadmap and Gantt charts could be improved."

"The tool was developed for Agile project methodology, but I've noticed that there has also been a try to incorporate what is typically done in MS Project, which is for more sequential Waterfall projects. The problem with that is that it is half-baked for Waterfall projects. If you're going to do it, then either go all the way and allow us to use the tool for both or don't do it at all."

"This product would be improved if the helpdesk were included."

"The administrative capabilities of the tool need a huge improvement. Its Wiki and reporting also need a lot of improvement. Their support can also be better."

More Microsoft Azure DevOps cons

"Every time it goes to run a pipeline, it just generates a lot of data, and its database is not exactly tuned out of the box, meaning it is not tuned for high scalability."

"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."

"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."

"Regarding areas for improvement, one significant issue is the lack of maker-checker flows to ensure that newly created pipelines are accurate and tested. We currently use an in-house abstraction over Spinnaker to verify pipeline specs, environment variables, etc. It would be beneficial if Spinnaker could offer this functionality within their product."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"As a Microsoft Partner, you get a discount on the pricing. Licensing costs are around $80 a month for DevOps, but for Azure, it is about $200 a month."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"I don't know what we pay, but I do know what I've seen online. If we switched to JIRA, we will basically have to double our costs because we still have to pay for the DevOps licensing. We're probably spending $100 a month on it. It has only standard licensing fees."

"The price of this solution is fair."

"There is a license for this solution."

"Compared to other tools, Microsoft Azure DevOps is a cheap solution."

"The reason that customers are going to the cloud is that it provides the ability to reduce the license cost. For example, when purchasing Office 365 it is bundled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and many other applications. In the past, purchasing a license was approximately $600. Today it's only $35 or $45 per customer, per client, or per user, plus the storage. It's less expensive for companies today, to use something, such as Microsoft Azure DevOps, and provide the software to all the employees needing a license. It's better to go with the cloud than just to buy the licenses by themselves."

More Microsoft Azure DevOps pricing and cost advice

"Spinnaker is a free-to-use, open-source solution."

"Spinnaker is an open-source product. The tool is completely free for users."

"The solution is open-source."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

21%

Retailer

11%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?

Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...

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Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?

TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Azure DevOps?

Valuable features for project management and tracking in Azure DevOps include a portal displaying test results, check-in/check-out activity, and developer/tester productivity.

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What do you like most about Spinnaker?

The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spinnaker?

The solution is open-source.

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What needs improvement with Spinnaker?

Regarding areas for improvement, one significant issue is the lack of maker-checker flows to ensure that newly created pipelines are accurate and tested. We currently use an in-house abstraction ov...

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Overview

Microsoft Azure DevOps is a cloud service that enables developers to collaborate on code development projects and create and deploy applications quicker than ever before. The service helps unite developers, project managers, and software development experts through a collaborative experience while using the application. For the users' convenience, Azure DevOps offers the user cloud services through Azure DevOps Services or an on-premises service using Azure DevOps Server. In addition, it supports integration with additional services and adding extensions, including the ability for the user to create their own custom extensions.

Azure DevOps provides a variety of unified features that can be accessed through their web browser or IDE client, such as:

Azure Pipelines - Develop and deploy services to support ongoing application integration and delivery. Azure pipelines, which work with almost every project type and most languages, will automatically test code projects in order to make them available to others.
Azure Artifacts - Share packages and integrate package sharing between teams. Packages include NuGet, npm, and Maven, in addition to other private and public sources. Developers can now share and consume packages with other developers from different public registries.
Azure Repos - Offers source control of your code through Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git repositories. Developers can now keep track of any changes that are made in their code over the course of their project.
Azure Test Plans - Offers continuous and manual/exploratory app testing through several tools. Test Suites, or a collection of Test Cases, are grouped together in a container called a Test Plan.
Azure Boards - Provides a suite of Agile tools to track work, support planning, code defects, and general issues while using Kanban and Scrum software. Teams are in need of tools that are flexible and will help them grow. Azure Boards is a service that helps developers manage their software projects.

Benefits of Microsoft Azure DevOps

Microsoft Azure DevOps offers many benefits, including:

A quick setup and easy deployment
An elastic scale
Exceptional security
No-maintenance operations
Effortless collaboration through domains
The ability to create and deploy products faster than traditional software

Reviews from Real Users

Microsoft Azure DevOps stands out among its competitors for a variety of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to forecast how long each task will take and the ability for users to follow the entire development process.

PeerSpot viewers note the effectiveness of this solution. An executive chief operating officer for a cloud provider notes, “We can forecast tasks and the number of hours a task will take and can compare it with how long a task actually takes.”

Carlos H., a product and system director at SPCM, writes, “I think the most usable thing is that you can follow the whole progress of the development process. This makes it very useful for us.”

Spinnaker provides application management and deployment to help you release software changes with high velocity and confidence. Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform that combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers. If you are looking to standardize your release processes and improve quality, Spinnaker is for you.

Sample Customers

Alaska Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Columbia, Skype

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