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What's wrong with Azure Devops? I'm genuinely curious, because it looks like it might do a great job at replacing an Atlassian catastrophe.

by vesak 8y ago

pc86 8y ago
Probably 2/3 of my day job is implementing Azure Devops for our internal and client applications - personally I really like it although it certainly has a learning curve and some things are non-intuitive. But everyone I've talked to who has used it in a professional context more than once (e.g. not tried it once and given up) is more-or-less very happy with the quality and reliability. If you're good with Powershell it's also extremely easy to write your own build and/or release steps which is a huge plus.
theflagbug 8y ago
For us, a few weeks ago Azure DevOps randomly stopped processing GitHub webhooks, so merge commits didn't trigger builds anymore (and we're not the only ones, see https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/346706/azure-devops-github-trigger-stopped-working.html https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/...). A fix for this issue still isn't deployed. Just a few days ago the service connection to Azure suddenly stopped working with "401 CouldNotFetchAccessTokenForAzureStatusCode" which appeared when deploying to Azure AppService. We had to recreate the service connection to get it working again. Recently we also wanted to move our Android builds to Azure DevOps but in the end the documentation was so confusing that we just used Bitrise instead.
- ladzoppelin 8y ago
  It does not work unless Github is open to the internet. For example, Github Enterprise behind a VPN will not be able to use Azure Devops. Crazy but true.
  - scarface74 8y ago
    Isn't Azure Devops just Visual Studio Team Services rebranded which is just hosted TFS? How hard is to bring TFS in house?
philliphaydon 8y ago
At work we are moving from VSTS to Jira :( sucks. It’s soooooo sloweeee compared to VSTS... luckily we can move our repos to GitHub.

What's wrong with Azure Devops? I'm genuinely curious, because it looks like it might do a great job at replacing an Atlassian catastrophe.

by vesak 8y ago

What's wrong with Azure Devops? I'm genuinely curious, because it looks like it might do a great job at replacing an Atlassian catastrophe.

pc86 8y ago

Probably 2/3 of my day job is implementing Azure Devops for our internal and client applications - personally I really like it although it certainly has a learning curve and some things are non-intuitive. But everyone I've talked to who has used it in a professional context more than once (e.g. not tried it once and given up) is more-or-less very happy with the quality and reliability. If you're good with Powershell it's also extremely easy to write your own build and/or release steps which is a huge plus.

theflagbug 8y ago

For us, a few weeks ago Azure DevOps randomly stopped processing GitHub webhooks, so merge commits didn't trigger builds anymore (and we're not the only ones, see https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/346706/azure-devops-github-trigger-stopped-working.html https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/...). A fix for this issue still isn't deployed. Just a few days ago the service connection to Azure suddenly stopped working with "401 CouldNotFetchAccessTokenForAzureStatusCode" which appeared when deploying to Azure AppService. We had to recreate the service connection to get it working again. Recently we also wanted to move our Android builds to Azure DevOps but in the end the documentation was so confusing that we just used Bitrise instead.

ladzoppelin 8y ago
It does not work unless Github is open to the internet. For example, Github Enterprise behind a VPN will not be able to use Azure Devops. Crazy but true.
- scarface74 8y ago
  Isn't Azure Devops just Visual Studio Team Services rebranded which is just hosted TFS? How hard is to bring TFS in house?

philliphaydon 8y ago

At work we are moving from VSTS to Jira :( sucks. It’s soooooo sloweeee compared to VSTS... luckily we can move our repos to GitHub.