What is Azure DevOps?
Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support.
Azure DevOps is a tool in the Integrated Development Environment Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses Azure DevOps?
Companies
292 companies reportedly use Azure DevOps in their tech stacks, including Microsoft, ViaVarejo, and Ruangguru.
Developers
1486 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Azure DevOps.
Azure DevOps Integrations
GitHub, Git, Docker, Slack, and Jenkins are some of the popular tools that integrate with Azure DevOps. Here's a list of all 53 tools that integrate with Azure DevOps.
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Decisions about Azure DevOps
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Azure DevOps in their tech stack.
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I am managing a medium-sized team (15-20 people) who are geographically dispersed. Our team works in privacy, security, data governance, and compliance, but we DO NOT develop software. So, our choices boil down to Jira, Azure DevOps Boards, and Asana.
We are looking for a tool that:
- Is user-friendly for non-technicians and easy for us to self-administer.
- Permits us to automate common workflows.
- Allows us to classify work across multiple dimensions.
- Permits cross-functional visibility across work teams to identify potential points of collaboration and historical work projects.
- Enables management visibility to see where we may be overtaxed or under-resourced or whether the time is spent on the right priorities.
- Enables engagement/task assignments to people who are not necessarily on our team (i.e., I need someone in HR to do "X") - preferably without their needing to be fully licensed.
- Makes it easier for everyone to understand how their work connects to the broader team's big-picture goals.
- Enables easy integration with other common workplace tools.
Thanks for any guidance you can provide.
Azure DevOps's Features
- Agile Tools: kanban boards, backlogs, scrum boards
- Reporting: dashboards, widgets, Power BI
- Git: free private repositories, pull requests
- Continuous Integration: automated builds and diagnostics
- Cloud build agents: cross-platform agents for Windows, Mac and Linux
- Testing Tools: unit testing, load testing, manual, exploratory and user acceptance testing
- Release Management: automate deployments, gated approval workflows, audit trails
- Marketplace: extensions for the Visual Studio family of products
- Package Management: host npm and NuGet packages
- IDE Support: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Xcode and Visual Studio
- Integration: link code and releases to work items, builds, and test results
Azure DevOps Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Azure DevOps?
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
AWS CodePipeline
CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.
Jira
Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work.
Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.
Visual Studio
Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.
