Azure Pipelines

What do you like best?

One of the better entry points going into automation. Learning curve is easier that expected. It's cloud agnostic meaning you are able to do automation not only on Azure but on AWS & GCP as well. It has its very own repository module for versioning. There are ready made templates to get you started with. And a marketplace, for addons that would help you further enhance your pipelines.

What do you dislike?

It's expensive compared to let's say an open source tool like Jenkins. Lacking CLI capabilities as well. Could be better integrated with Github since Microsoft already bought this.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

This is very much recommended to Microsoft dev houses. It provides all the features you'd expect from a DevOps perspective. It doesn't stop non Microsoft dev houses in using this as it is very much agnostic. If you are implementing Agile development workflow, then you are lookin at the right place.

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

Removing the manual way of deploying and releasing applications. It saves a lot of time by just doing azure pipelines. Severe lack of manpower is also being addressed. No need for administrators doing releases. Developers can now concentrate on just developing and delivering applications.