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."Great project management feature and Git-based repository."
"The initial setup is quick and easy."
"The most valuable feature in automating our build and release processes with Azure DevOps is the scheduling capability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it saves time."
"The available Kanban board is the best feature for management decisions."
"There are a lot of helpful features available for tracking dependencies."
"It's got something that you won't find in other products."
"The product is easy to use and very stable."
"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."
"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."
"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."
"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."
"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."
"The solution should have fewer updates."
"We are currently in the process of moving all of our on-prem to the cloud platform. We are trying to make that move and host the majority of our DevOps services in the cloud because the cloud is where most of the things are going nowadays. However, the process of this transfer is not straightforward, and it could be a lot easier. Microsoft hasn't provided the maturity for migration tools. It could be a lot easier in that respect. I want to see them continue to advance the API capabilities. They could add some more robust functionality to the administrative layer within ADO services. There are a lot of configuration elements that you need to take care of at the organization level and the project configuration level from an administrative capacity. When you're dealing with process templates and things of that nature, you have to do them all manually. Being able to automate some of that using scripts or API functionality would be really nice."
"It is not that intuitive. Sometimes, it is hard to find some of the functions. I would like to have an old-fashioned menu structure to be able to easily find things. Its environment setup is not very good. They should improve the way it is set up for different screens and make it easier to find functionalities and maintain team members."
"The UI, the user experience, is challenging for newcomers."
"The interface is very bad."
"With Microsoft, I would prefer to have more test plans. It's very difficult to find individual test plan module training."
"The user interface could be improved."
"If they could build up requirement traceability metrics, then it would be great."
"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 scalability of this application needs improvement. Changes and variations in the application become bottlenecks as they need to be more seamless and comfortable."
"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."
"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."
"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."
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 124 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 and Rally Software, whereas UrbanCode Deploy is most compared with GitLab, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Octopus Deploy, HCL Launch and BMC Release Lifecycle Management.
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