Avis clients sur Azure DevOps Services

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Avantages :

facile d'utilisation, elle permet de gérer tout le processus devops d'un logiciel quel que soit l'échelle de déploiement de celui ci

Inconvénients :

le service client peut etre lent à réagir

Great deployment agent for Azure

Commentaires : We are automating a lot of tasks with Azure DevOps and saving our teams a lot of time doing repetitive tasks. The ability to create workflow like pipelines has saved us days of work and continues to keep automating tasks for us. It is like having another team member doing things...

Avantages :

My favorite is that their API can be used to do almost anything in the GUI, we use it heavily to store values across pipelines. The other option we use a lot is secure files for our certs, ssh keys and other text files containing important information which is encrypted and not output in clear test. Another thing that I like about Azure DevOps is that you can use it with any of the products that are on the market we use it heavily with Ansible to the point that we are able to get Ansible-tower like functionality without the extra license. Every day the community makes it easier by adding tasks to simplify working with inputs and outputs for example Terraform state file management, Ansible secrets, Packer Image Builder, etc. I can go on and on but the other major integration is with Security where we can scan our code at the time we commit and before running on our pipelines.

Inconvénients :

I cannot find a specific con but I can see alerts about service availability about once per month but hasn't affected my usability.

Top end quality

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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.

My personal view

Commentaires : I like the eas of use, very good integration possibilities in the already existing Office tools like teams or to-do app. I also like the Azure devops market place

Avantages :

I would like to see more priorization features like a priorization matrix tools on workitem base

Inconvénients :

The view of the work items are not always logical not always clear why some work items are not shown when filtered for example to assigned person

A basic functional Review

Commentaires : Overall experience is neutral.
Looking forward if they improve the product.

Avantages :

The software has many advantages - 1. Complete bundle/package to push a build on production. 2.Can keep all the builds/production code with versioning. 3.Bug, User story, accès rights are very well segregated. 4. From assigning a new user story to making a task and assigning bug the process is complete, you do not need any other software to manage the team. 5.Can be easily integrated with GitHub too(if you have paid version of both) 6.Security wise a good and trustable product.

Inconvénients :

There are some cons too which I felt- 1. Firstly the azure dashboard takes too long to load/ refresh (without any wifi/internet issue). 2. Many times it just stuck on a single page. 3. As they are providing a complete package of multiple functionality , the smooth user interface is missing. Literally many times you just have to search for a single things and you will be puzzled in the complete dashboard. 4.If you have a lot of number of projects ongoing and you are part of a big project with multiple members, the user story is not very clear. 5. Options of "not replicable" and many options are missing in bug lifecycle. They should add more lifecycle to task and bugs for better clarity.

Tools for doubling productivity

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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

Great

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

- 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

Inconvénients :

- 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

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

Avantages :

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

Inconvénients :

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

Devops is a great alternative to other Collaboration tool

Commentaires : It's great for project management. I think it's an effective way for both large projects and small Proof of concepts. I personally found myself using it to manage small sprints on medium sized long-term projects

Avantages :

It integrates well with other Azure services. You can even have branches setup on the same project. Despite a few aesthetic changes, the UI reminds me very much of Jira and other management software. It's clean and intuitive.

Inconvénients :

I want to use it more to get a better sense of the shortcomings but coming from another platform, I find it to have less plugins and add ons than the others. Maybe it's to keep the clean boards and tasks but I'd like more 3rd party options.

Azure DevOps Services - all you need in one place

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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

Azure Devops Or not

Commentaires : I adopted this tool from the first day

Avantages :

Azure Devops is intuitive, easy to use, ergonomic.Anyone can use it without training

Inconvénients :

Testing pipeline build or release need more times

The DevOps unified solution

Commentaires : We use Azure DevOps Services for every aspect of the Application Lifecycle: requirements and tasks, Git repo, pipelines, bug tracking, Package management, Test management.

Avantages :

Smart agile tools, unlimited Git repos and modern services to build and ship our software products

Inconvénients :

Need to improve the Task boards features (in particular reports based on effort/story points)

Dev Ops is a must to meet deliverables

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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?

One Stop Solution for all DevOps needs

Commentaires : All in all, I found Azure DevOps Services very useful. It has some of the great features which i have been using daily. It helps me to collaborate with colleagues, track working items, plan sprints, Source code management and Continuous integration/deployment of builds.

Avantages :

Azure DevOps Services offers various features, I'm using Pipelines(CI/CD), Artifacts, Boards and Repositories mostly. All of the features are very well developed and easy to use. Intensive documentation is offered by Microsoft to learn more about platform's features. Board helps me to track work items. Repositories helps to do peer programming and Pipelines helps to build automatically and deploy. It's integration with other tools like Sonarqube, Ansible and Jenkins are not that hard as well.

Inconvénients :

If some of the features comes with learning curve. Apart from that, Microsoft hosted agent pools has its own limitation they are not very useful if we have some special requirements for our project.

Intuitive sprint organization and metrics, mediocre test planning options

Commentaires : Azure DevOps is an expansive software meant to help manage the full software development life cycle, and it support an agile development environment, from planning to estimating to tracking work, testing and repositories. It accomplishes most of these goals pretty well.

Avantages :

I find the sprint planning features, dashboard and sprint boards intuitive and convenient. I like being able to organize my tickets and easily see the work of other members of my team.

Inconvénients :

I am not a huge fan of the test planning aspect of the program. I find creating test cases to be clunky, even when using the "grid" functionality that allows you to import test cases from a spreadsheet. One example is that when creating a test case using the "grid" feature, if you had multiple line breaks within a single cell in a spreadsheet, it will copy each line break into a separate cell in the grid instead of copying them into a single cell with line breaks as they appeared in the spreadsheet.

Good service - covers everything from task management to VCS and release management

Commentaires : Good overall. I'd recommend this if you're in a corporate environment and already use other Microsoft products - this will feel very familiar. Also, if you don't want to combine multiple services and just want to pay for one thing and get everything you might need.

Avantages :

It's a one-stop shop for everything you need in an R&D group - includes everything, with integration between the different features of the product.

Inconvénients :

It doesn't have the best integrations around (especially vs. GitHub for example), and also the task management system feels clunky at times - more old fashioned than alternatives like Monday.com or Asana, which makes it annoying to check up on my work daily as an IC.

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

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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.

Organization and Visibility

Commentaires : This has helped our business get organized on the multiple projects we are engaged in simultaneously. We had tried a few other systems but this is by far the best.

Avantages :

I think the best thing about ADO, at least for me and my needs is visibility. It's very easy to see where a ticket is in its cycle and easy to follow up on things as needed. Other coworkers can check the status of their items which removes the need for constant email check ups.

Inconvénients :

I'm sure this feature can be turned off (or I could filter my inbox) but I receive a lot of emails about updates on tickets but some of them are unnecessary. I don't need an email to let me know someone liked or thumbed up my comment.

Best suite for Azure shop

Commentaires : 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

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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.

Lost access to everything, have no idea why as I haven't changed anything

Commentaires : Lost access to all my code, which used to work as a serviceable Git repository and now doesn't.

Avantages :

It was an easy way to use Git. I thought that Microsoft was good, but I should have known better.

Inconvénients :

Losing access suddenly to all my code is bad.

Slow at times

Commentaires : I am currently operating as a technical team lead with a very distributed team across the US and latin America. This really is a brilliant tool for centralizing the operations of a technology company.

Avantages :

I do like how integrated all the Microsoft services are. Allows for a seamless experience between project management and actual development services.

Inconvénients :

I dislike the slow responses and page loads - I am almost sure that a number of the screens could be preloaded to make it faster and more responsive

Feature Rich

Avantages :

VSTS provides everything our team needs to manage our work, code, continuous integration, and deployment. In the past, i would have 1 or 2 people dedicated to building and maintaining the tools the VSTS provides.

Inconvénients :

I wish there was better integration with non microsoft tools like Slack.

VSTS is becoming a full fledged management tool

Avantages :

The think I like the most about this is how everything is integrated. The code that is checked in is tied to the peer review and the feature it is for, which can be tied to the build it was in, which can be tied to the release that went out. This allows all work to be tracked along the entire software development life cycle.

Inconvénients :

The thing that is still lacking are project management tools. However this is something that is continually being worked on and the feature set that exists now is much more robust than what it was a year ago. I expect this to quickly catch up to some of the other tools out there.

A full package

Avantages :

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

Inconvénients :

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

Powerful but annoying

Avantages :

The mass amount of flexibility using boards, backlogs and assigning stories different areas.

Inconvénients :

Feature overload makes it powerful but at times not very obvious such as multi selecting items and assigning them tags.