概要
Azure DevOps Consists of
(bold italics text = GitLab currently falls short in this area)
Pipelines (previously in VSTS, TFS)
- Includes previous Release Manager (release pipelines)
- Native container support
- Save to any container registry
- Linux, macOS, Windows cloud hosted agents
- Deployment stages, release gates, and approvals
- GitHub Marketplace integration - makes it easy to setup and run CI from GitHub.
- 100's of 3rd party integrations
- Design pipelines in yml or UI
Costs
- Open source (public) projects get 10 free parallel jobs, unlimited time
- private projects - MS hosted - 1 free parallel job, 1800 mins/mnth - $40/parallel addition, unlimited time
- private projects - self-hosted - 1 free parallel job, unlimited time, each Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber in org = 1 additional self-hosted parallel job, beyond that +$15 each additional parallel job
- NOTE Their pricing is pushing folks to their cloud service offering. On-prem Pipelines Server = buying TFS licenses (now called Azure DevOps Server). This version will be updated 3-4 months behind in feature/functionality updates. Azure DevOps Server pricing.
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Boards (previously in VSTS, TFS)
- Work/issue tracking
- Backlogs
- Team dashboards
- Custom reporting
- Kanban boards
- Scrum boards and sprint planning
- Customizable work item workflows
Costs
- Free <=5 users
- Included in $30/mnth per 10 users
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Artifacts (previously in VSTS, TFS)
- Maven, npm, and NuGet package feeds from public and private sources
- Caching proxy of external repos/feeds
- Artifacts integrate natively with pipelines
Costs
- Free <=5 users
- additional $4/user above 5
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Repos (previously in VSTS, TFS)
- Unlimited private Git repo hosting
- Diff in-line threaded code reviews
- Branch policies defining merge
- Pull requests
- Semantic code search
- Webhooks and REST APIs
- Support for TFVC (and nobody cares)
Costs
- Free <=5 users
- Included in $30/mnth per 10 users
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Test Plans (previously in VSTS, TFS)
- Test & Feedback (exploratory/manual testing) - capture & record issues
- Test planning, tracking & execution
- Load testing (Azure DevOps and VSTS only)
- User acceptance testing
- Centralized reporting
Costs
- additional $52/mnth per user
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Separate from Azure DevOps but available for extra cost
- Azure Monitor - APM, infra, data, services (GitLab has)
- App centric
- but separate from Azure DevOps.
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/overview
- pay by use
- Visual Studio - Full blown IDE - Free with sub
- Visual Studio Code - IDE Lite - Free (GitLab has)
- Container Registry (MS has Azure Container Registry) (GitLab has)
Unavailable as part of Microsoft offering
(but which GitLab has)
- Security scanning built-in
- Review Apps
- Deployment Scenarios (canary, incremental, etc)
- フィーチャーフラグ
- ChatOps
General Notes
- All paid plans include unlimited stakeholder users who can view and contribute to work items and boards, and view dashboards, charts, and pipelines
- Release details and roadmap
- All current VSTS subscribers will be moved automatically to Azure DevOps.
- TFS (on prem) pricing implies a SaaS first mentality and customer push
- Buy at least one Visual Studio license + Azure DevOps users @ $6/mnth
- Visual Studio Professional ($45/mnth) - no Test Manager, Artifacts, Pipelines (unless OSS)
- Visual Studio Enterprise ($250/mnth) - include Test Manager and Artifacts
- https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/team-services/tfs-pricing/
- Buy at least one Visual Studio license + Azure DevOps users @ $6/mnth
