What are the benefits of working with Azure DevOps? More and more developer and operations teams are embracing the DevOps culture to address the duality between developers and operations. Today, 37% of enterprises are reported to have already implemented DevOps projects(Trend Micro, 2019), and Azure DevOps and its assets are starting to set the standard for the field.
However, the number of DevOps tools is growing by the day (see our article on DevOps tools that can't be ignored), and it's easy to get lost in the jungle of solutions. In this jungle, certain solutions stand out, such as Azure DevOps. There are many reasons for this, so we've summed up the strengths of Azure DevOps in 5 main advantages.
1. The security offered by Azure DevOps
The Azure environment makes security a priority by strictly adhering to standard security models: detect, assess, diagnose, stabilize, shut down. This is coupled with rigorous cybersecurity monitoring, earning Microsoft Azure an impressive array of international compliances.
2. Collaboration is the foundation of Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps makes sharing one of its main strengths. Being able to host and manage code centrally is often the key to optimizing project management and software development.
Even if your team only has PowerShell or VB scripts, Azure DevOps has the advantage of taking care of centralizing everything. You can even continue to do version control on Team Foundation or GIT.
3. Task management made easy with Microsoft's tool
Even if you don't have code to manage, you can coordinate the management of your systems with what Azure calls tasks. Managing these tasks (whether it's a server, a project risk, or a system bug, for example.) fits perfectly into a process model creation context. Using a process model, you can model your tasks around an Agile Framework (particularly popular for software development) or CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration).
No matter how you organize them, this task management will help your team divide your complex systems and multiple projects much more easily.
4. Integration and continuous delivery, a major advantage
For software-centric organizations, Azure DevOps provides a robust platform on which you can deploy your solutions in a pipeline that enables continuous integration and deployment.
Whether you are deploying a hosted solution at Azure or AWS, the Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline can support your solution from development to delivery.
Thanks to its rich catalog of plugins and integrations, infrastructure-as-code can also be incorporated into the pipeline to automate large-scale changes. All in one place.
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5. Another advantage of Azure DevOps: an open platform
Azure Devops offers advanced integration capabilities with many industry and community tools. Its application marketplace provides hundreds of extensions. In other words, if Devops doesn't support a feature you need, you'll likely find an extension that does.
To summarize, Azure DevOps is above all a secure, collaborative and open platform with a wide range of possibilities.
See also our article on 6 tips before implementing continuous testing in DevOps.
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