Azure DevTest Labs

What do you like best?

Ability for users to claim machines and out of the box schedule for shutdown and startup of VMs

Provisioning of VMs with predefined template (formula).

What do you dislike?

At times it is experimental, some feature might break once a while. It is not being backed by service level per se.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you would like to build your development environment on Azure, this is a must not missed tool that didn't add cost but provided a lot of configurable flexibility as compare to mere VM provisioning.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Build development environment on the cloud and ability to scale when needed.

In the past with on-premise infrastructure, provisioning VMs needed much lead time and costly and man hours to prepare machines, however, with Azure DevTest Labs, it is a matter of template selections, configuration and automation, which reduces both lead time as well as cost.