Microsoft Azure DevOps Reviews

The company that we were working with was in development using a Microsoft platform. We used Azure to integrate the complete project management and DevOps work.

This solution works with other Microsoft solutions pretty easily. It was easy to integrate everything into all the other tools that we were using. It integrates very seamlessly.

I have not come across information for integrating this solution with others, such as ServiceNow. I am not sure if the integration would be straightforward to implement. There should be readily available information to accomplish these integrations.

I have been using the solution for approximately two years.

The project that we were using the solution for was a small implementation, I cannot fully comment on how scalable it is. I did not have enough data to comment if it was good. However, we did not have any issues.

The customer support is good.

The installation time of this solution depends on the environment it is being implemented in. We had a couple of projects that took around two weeks of implementation. This included the whole integration of the DevOps and everything together.

We had an expert that did the implementation of the solution for us. He did not face any problems.

There is a license for this solution.

We plan to continue offering this product to our customers and I would recommend it.

I rate Microsoft Azure DevOps a seven out of ten.

We are using this solution for workflow management, especially when using a Kanban board to monitor the small assignments. Also, some programming for some of the disciplines. It's still in its infant stages.

It's a complete solution that has everything you need. 

It covers all of the development workflows to the initial planning, testing, coding, and even to launch the subsequent feedbacks.

Also, it has marketing reports.

It's very promising. They are very well positioned to take over some pretty heavy contestants in that area.

I think that they have some menus there that are not very well placed. For example, I was searching for some extensions in the marketplace and I couldn't find my way back to the console. It's not very well designed.

The general user interface is nice. It's intuitive, but I had the luck to discover something that is not very well designed. The fact that I can't return back to the console is very strange. I couldn't find my way back. I had to log off and log on again and get back to the console in a very awkward way.

I have been using this solution for a few weeks.

We are using the latest version.

It's a stable solution.

As per the documentation that I have read, it's pretty scalable. My brother, who works with this solution practically every day, says it's scalable.

We plan to continue using this solution.

I have not yet had any experience with technical support.

Previously, I just used GitHub, so just Version Control for code and not much more. 

I used also their integrated development environments including Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. These solutions are built by Microsoft.

It's straightforward. With the cloud solution, there is no installation.

I could create the main console for the project very quickly, with just a name and description and the rest is the default.

This is a product that I can recommend to other users.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

All of the features related to release management are very good. We use release management and dev management, and the dashboard is good. The ability to specify multiple platforms in release management, by using Docker, is valuable.

Better integration with the Linux operating system would be an improvement for this solution.

I would like to see more third-party plugins; by comparison, the open source solution, Jenkins, has thousands of plugins available.

The Wiki for this solution is not very good.

There is a problem when you want to run a release pipeline for an organization that needs enhanced security. There is no option to configure a dynamic login for a station that is running the tests. The only solution in the platform is to configure an agent that uses a fixed username and password login. There is no option to change the username or password for the login dynamically. If I want to run multiple tests, with different users, then I cannot do it. When it comes to running tests, it needs an option to use different users or authentications. This is a very important feature that is missing.

This solution is very stable.

Scalability is not particularly relevant. It depends on what kind of scaling you want to do. Generally, it has very good support for scaling.

There are hundreds of developers using this solution.

We only had one issue, and I would rate their technical support at medium, based on that experience. The issue was related to shrinking a database, where it was not working well. It took a long time for Microsoft support to fix the problem.

We did not use another solution prior to this one. However, I use other tools in conjunction with Azure DevOps. One of these is Jenkins, for CICD, and I also use the Atlassian Suite.

The initial setup for the latest version was very straightforward. The upgrade was quick and lightweight.

I handled the implementation on my own.

This is a solution that I would recommend.

Azure DevOps is a leading platform, but some things can be better. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

As for room for improvement, more features need to be added to the classic pipeline. The build and release pipelines are present, but there has not been much improvement there.

Apart from that, the reporting structure could be provided as well. Depending on how the company is using the technology, there may be other Microsoft tools that are better so that the integration and reporting will be easier.

I've been using Microsoft Azure DevOps for almost five or six years.

It is stable, and we have had no issues with it.

It is scalable.

I would rate this solution at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We use it for planning, pipeline management and testing, as well as using it as a CI/CD tool.

I like the agile management of projects, running stand-ups and the like. The pipeline management feature is great.  

We'd like to see an improvement in reporting across multiple projects. The same applies to improving program visibility so that project managers can get that pane of glass to assist with their work. It would be a big win for a lot of users as well as a good addition to the tool. 

We've been using this solution for close to four years. 

The solution is stable. There are still the occasional issues but on average it's very stable. 

The solution is easily scalable because it runs on the cloud and everything is managed by Microsoft. We don't do anything in terms of increasing capacity so when more users are added the increased capacity is automatically managed. 

We haven't made a lot of calls to technical support but when we have their response has been good and quick. 

We have a DevOps engineer who carried out the implementation for us and I believe it was relatively easy. 

I rate this solution eight out of 10.

I primarily use the solution for more of an end-to-end pipeline. 

The integration with the full end-to-end suite is great. The integration between the Kanban all the way through, including the traceability all the way through to the other end is very useful. You're able to test and you have your repositories and the ability to integrate with pipelines. 

There are great automation tools. 

The solution is very stable.

The scalability is quite good.

Individually, the components and not quite as good as others in the market. For example, the DevOps test plan isn't quite as good as a Micro Focus ALM QC. That said, when you integrate it into that entire pipeline, it's better.

Microsoft initiates changes so quickly, it's hard to keep up. It would be helpful if there was more documentation and more training to go with all of the changes. Chris:

With Microsoft, I would prefer to have more test plans. It's very difficult to find individual test plan module training.

The solution is quite stable. It's pretty reliable. there aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution is very scalable. It's easy to expand.

I've had no problems with technical support, however, I'll get put in the fast-track programs. I always get very fast responses. 

I also use Micro Focus. For older style waterfall projects, it's best to go with Micro Focus probably, barring pricing and other consideration. However, in an agile environment, a Microsoft Azure-based product such as DevOps is great due to the pipeline and the whole integration end-to-end is just better.

I'm also familiar with Jira, which has better features in various areas. The problem is it moves so fast and new versions are always coming out and it can be hard to keep up.

I'm an implementor. I work with a variety of clients. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's great for agile and we've been pretty happy with it as an end-to-end solution. 

If you're moving into an agile CI/CD, DevOps is the way to go. If you're still thinking about old manual start testing, Micro Focus is probably the way to go. That said, more standalone manual testing is better supported by Micro Focus.

We use Microsoft Azure DevOps to store our code, manage our code, and publish it.

Before we used Azure DevOps, our team used to promote the code manually. What they did was publish, copy the files and paste them on the server or run lines of code to get our services in production. That takes a lot of time. With the pipeline we're using, that time was reduced by ten times. We're ten times faster now.

Everything that's related to the pipeline has been very good. We're using this to promote our code and to secure it. The library and all the stuff that we can manage inside the pipeline is helping us a lot.

I'd like to have something better for the test plan. The test plan seems to be really manual even now. There's a lot of stuff to do there, and it could be improved. 

Sometimes, it's also difficult for us to handle all the connections with iOS. iOS connections are really very difficult. We're using a different product, which is part of Microsoft, called App Center. But sharing from Azure DevOps to App Center has been difficult. They should try to improve things related to iOS development or iOS production.

I've been using Microsoft Azure DevOps for the last five years.

I wouldn't complain about stability. Sometimes we have a couple of maintenance windows, which is okay. We actually had a couple of problems, but I don't remember. I would say that it's under normal standards. I wouldn't complain about it.

Microsoft Azure DevOps is scalable. It was easy to grow.

If I ever raised any kind of a question to technical support, it was pretty good. I have asked a couple of questions in the technical area. They helped me, and it was good and pretty fast.

We used to use another solution, but I don't remember which one. We switched because of a big contract that our company had with Azure. We were going to have our servers with Azure, and it looked like they reviewed the pricing and made the change.

The initial setup was really easy. I didn't even manage this before, but I'm the one who is running this now, and it's pretty easy. Something that made me a little bit confused was all the permissions you have to give to teams and people. Sometimes it's kind of tricky, but it's understandable.

Lately, the deployment's taking a little bit longer than before. I don't know what happened. I'll say that before our deployments took us maybe a couple of minutes. I didn't even measure that, but now it sometimes takes up to 40 minutes or an average of 30 minutes for each deployment.

I implemented Microsoft Azure DevOps by myself.

I would advise potential Microsoft Azure DevOps users to start exploring the free options, which are pretty good. I use it myself as an independent. As soon as you start using it, you'll know that you have to pay because it's a good tool that we can have to manage our code.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Microsoft Azure DevOps an nine.

I am using the solution to create continuous integration and deployment agents on the server environments. We are also involved in some projects where we create user stories and features created on the solution.

The most valuable features are continuous integration and deployment, and simplicity.

The active directory password system needs some improvement because many times the password for the active directory expires before the set time. Additionally, in the beginning, when I get the repository and check in my code on the dashboard to see who made changes, it shows that another user made the change that did not. This could be fixed in a future release.

 have been using the solution for three years.

The solution is stable.

I have found the scalability of the solution to be good.

I did not contact support but I was able to find all the information I needed on the internet.

The installation is straightforward.

There is a license for this solution.

I have experience with other solutions and with this one, you can add many addons without any difficult configuration. It has all the code and related items together, it is a total package.

I highly recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Azure DevOps a nine out of ten.