Azure DevOps

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/devops
DevOps
Weekend Project

Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern dev services

How to Replace Azure DevOps

Overview

Azure DevOps is a complete DevOps solution that provides a set of modern development services for planning, building, testing, and deploying applications. It offers agile planning tools, CI/CD capabilities, security features, and testing tools that work across any platform, language, and cloud environment. Organizations can use the complete solution or select individual products that fit their workflow.

Features

18 features across 11 categories

AI(2)

Agentic DevOpsAI

Automate, optimize, and accelerate every stage of the software development lifecycle with AI agents

GitHub Copilot IntegrationAIPremium

Code, test, and modernize with help from the most widely adopted AI-developer tool

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

AI Integration(1)

Azure DevOps MCP ServerAI

Enable GitHub Copilot to interact with and operate on work items, pull requests, test plans, builds, releases, and wiki pages in Azure DevOps projects

Also in: Apify, Synthesia, Pendo

CI/CD(3)

Azure Pipelines

Build, test, and deploy with CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub or any other Git provider and deploy continuously

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Build, test, and deploy in any language to any cloud or on-premises, and run in parallel on Linux, macOS, and Windows

Docker Build Task

Easily build and release Docker containers using an open-source build task

Infrastructure(1)

Managed DevOps Pools

Empower development teams to quickly spin up and customize Azure DevOps agent pools, making it easy to implement best security practices, help balance cost and performance, and adopt paths for common DevOps scenarios

Integration(1)

GitHub IntegrationAI

Take advantage of the latest innovations in AI and security through enhanced integrations between GitHub, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Copilot

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Package Management(1)

Azure Artifacts

Create, host, and share packages with your team, and easily add artifacts to your CI/CD pipelines with native integrations to Azure Pipelines

Also in: Puppet, CircleCI, Grav

Project Management(2)

Agile Planning Tools

Deliver value to your users with proven, agile tools to plan, track, and discuss work across teams

Azure BoardsAI

Track work with configurable Kanban boards and integrate with GitHub Copilot to kick off tasks and generate code

Also in: monday.com, Obsidian, Smartsheet

Security(3)

DevSecOps Support

Empower developer, security, and operations teams to prioritize innovation and enhance developer productivity without sacrificing security

Embedded Security and Compliance

Built-in security features with 34,000 full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security and over 100 compliance certifications

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOpsPremium

Develop securely from inception to deployment with a suite of security testing tools native to Azure DevOps

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Airtable

Testing(2)

Azure Test Plans

Test and ship with confidence using manual and exploratory testing tools

Manual and Exploratory Testing

Test often, release with confidence, and improve overall code quality with manual and exploratory DevOps testing

Time Tracking(1)

TimetrackerPremium

Professional, easy-to-use time tracking, forecasting, and management for developers, teams, and enterprises

Version Control(1)

Azure Repos

Collaborate to build better code using pull requests and advanced file management with unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repositories

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Azure DevOps. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Azure DevOps alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 18 features.

Buy Azure DevOps

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Buying Azure DevOps saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 18 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

6 known integrations

DockerGitHubGitHub CopilotSentrySlackVisual Studio