We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps has been very good for creating pipelines, and all the solutions for creating task management for developers and for the business."
"The product is easy to use...It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"All of the features related to release management are very good."
"I like the entire tool because it is a one-stop-solution for DevOps."
"What I like the most about this product is that it's free and it's secure."
"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."
"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 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 solution can improve by adding integration with on-premise tools. The only built-in repository options are GitHub and DevOps."
"The communication could work better, especially for the development team."
"I would like to see better interoperability with the agile scaling frameworks."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps could improve by having better integration with other email servers."
"I can't think of any specific things at the moment, but I've run into things that I didn't like. I came across something that I wanted to be changed in DevOps, but I can't remember what it was. It was a particular feature I was looking for that I couldn't find."
"The only downside is that the deployment could be a little challenging but it is manageable."
"When comparing with Jira, I find that the task management capabilities in Azure DevOps are not yet fully comprehensive and should be enhanced."
"When you compare with Jira, there is a lack of progress features."
"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 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 see more reporting for container architecture."
"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."
"I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 127 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 "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". 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, Octopus Deploy, HCL Launch and BMC Release Lifecycle Management. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. UrbanCode Deploy report.
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