10 Reasons Why Azure DevOps is AWESOME

[@CoderDave]

✨Question of the day: What ALM / DevOps tool do you use and like better?

[@Muthukumar-ie5tj]

We use Rally and Jenkins, now moving to azuredevops

[@esmailiyou]

Would be cool if we could actually see the tool during the video.

[@nEbuLa0248]

Great job! Reason 11 in my own opinion: Azure DevOps Service is a SaaS meaning that we do not need to manage the infrastructure, setup and patching! :)

[@CoderDave]

That's a very good point. I thought of putting that into the list as well, but there are since there are some other tools offered in SaaS (even though not many) I decided to consider other points which are more unique in Azure DevOps

[@mjRumor]

Hi Dave. How do you know that most of the Fortune 500 companies use Azure Pipelines? Are there any reliable sources with details?

[@CoderDave]

It was announced during the Build conference prior to the release of the video. Keep in mind that the video is almost 2 years old, so many things have changed since then. As a former Microsoft employee, I can tell you than more and more companies are switching over from Azure DevOps to GitHub, and lately with all the new features in GitHub Actions they are also moving from Azure Pipelines to Actions.

[@ssvr]

Hi Dave, is there anything Jira can do that Azure Dev Ops cannot? Have you used both and how do they compare? thanks

[@CoderDave]

I have used Jira only marginally with some clients, I don't have an extensive personal experience with it. I know they work differently, both are pretty customizable but in their own ways so if you are used to one it may be difficult adapting to the other one. I also know that most of the time Jira is loved by PMs but hated by the development teams, while Azure Boards is liked by both when they get to understand it better. :) One thing I'm pretty sure Jira lets you do it while it is not present in Azure Boards is controlling who can change the state of a work item. For example, you can specify that only a certain user or team can move a Task from "Doing" to "Done". This is not present OOB in Azure DevOps because of a different philosophy in the tool (collaboration over control)

[@youtalkify]

What's you comment on GCP devops vs Azure or AWS devops? Please advice

[@CoderDave]

HI. Unfortunately I've never worked with GCP so I do not know their products. Azure DevOps, however, is a different product from AWS DevOps. AWS DevOps is a set of tool to manage, deploy, and monitor AWS services, and as such works only with AWS Azure DevOps instead, despite the name, is not tied to Azure in the sense that is a proper DevOps suite that works with any cloud or on-prem environment.

[@goktugerol1127]

How to get your tshirt?

[@CoderDave]

Haha it's a very old tshirt I got many years ago at a MS event :)