We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, GitLab, Red Hat and others in Release Automation."Detailed logs allow us to pinpoint the exact cause of any issues, making troubleshooting efficient and accurate."
"It's a great product for the CI/CD process."
"You can have test cases in DevOps but not in JIRA. And, DevOps has advantages in terms of executing those test cases."
"What I like most about Azure DevOps is how easy it is to manage projects and control deployments."
"The most valuable feature is the complete integration between test cases, pipelines, and issue management."
"Most of the features are very valuable for us, especially the source code control and task management."
"We can forecast tasks and the number of hours a task will take and can compare it with how long a task actually takes."
"Azure DevOps' collaborative features are good, and it integrates well with other tools in the software development process, like quality testing, documentation, and agile development."
"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."
"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."
"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."
"I would like to see more customization available to the administrator."
"When comparing with Jira, I find that the task management capabilities in Azure DevOps are not yet fully comprehensive and should be enhanced."
"Templates could be improved."
"I would like to see better integration and collaboration between tools."
"The testing environment and different pipelining concepts can be improved."
"I want DevOps to have more automated reminders about tasks that don't need management. We don't have reminders, so a project manager must track the tasks. It's not automatic."
"As for improvement, the first one is pricing. For us, luckily because we are partners, it's free. Microsoft gold partners do not have to pay, but if you're not a partner, the product is very expensive."
"Azure DevOps is set up more for development and less for testing. If it is set up correctly, everyone can use it better, but it was set up from a development point of view, which means it is lacking in what I need from a testing perspective. Just like any other tool, it depends on how it is configured. I am not happy with the way it is set up. It is configured more from a development side, and it doesn't necessarily cater to all the other areas that probably need to use it, such as testing data, etc."
"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."
"The scalability of this application needs improvement. Changes and variations in the application become bottlenecks as they need to be more seamless and comfortable."
"I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline."
"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."
"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 126 reviews while UrbanCode Deploy is ranked 6th in Release Automation with 27 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2, while UrbanCode Deploy is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Good support, helpful management capabilities, and great Kanban boards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UrbanCode Deploy writes "It offers OOTB plugins for middleware". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas UrbanCode Deploy is most compared with GitLab, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, HCL Launch, Octopus Deploy and BMC Release Lifecycle Management.
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