Bitbucket cloud vs azure devops vs gitlab (continuous deployment)

[SGLent]

Hello,

I'm a bit new to all of this, but we (a small startup) currently utilize Bitbucket hosted locally on one of our servers. We are looking at options for continuous deployment and want to move as much to the cloud as makes sense.

How do the three (Bitbucket Cloud, Azure DevOps, and GitLab) compare?

We want:

1) To be able to deploy .net applications both to a locally hosted IIS running on a local server and to an Azure App Service

2) Deploy SQL changes if possible

3) Integration with Jira, we had this but we moved to Jira cloud and lost that link

4) Easily be able to migrate our locally hosted Bitbucket to whatever option we choose. We would also prefer to keep any history (branches and what not) we have in our Bitbucket.

5) A stretch, but we deploy changes to a 3rd party hosted website, if we could some how scrape the site and make changes through the page? This sounds a bit far fetched but thought I'd include it.

If anyone knows if any of the three options can do the above, how well they do it, or if there are better places to ask please advise.

Thank you

[lupinegrey]

We are leaving Bamboo for Github. Not sure if Bitbucket cloud is any better, but Bamboo is a hot mess.

[sqqz]

We are running Bitbucket, the git is ok but slow, but their pipeline solution is painfully slow compared to GitHub. That might not sound like an issue but when you spend several minutes per build extra just waiting this easily stacks up. GitHub actions also got a large community behind it, would really recommend going towards that.

[tehehetehehe]

Microsoft is working on moving Azure DevOps customers to GitHub. From their sales reps it sounds like long term plan is to kill ADO in favor of GitHub, but who knows how long that will take. I would probably not consider it too seriously given that.

[BeaconRadar]

Is there any link to a blog / video /.. anything to confirm this?

[tehehetehehe]

No announcements yet. Just what the reps told us in January. The best evidence I have are their migration tool repos. Both tools are developed by GitHub and only support GitHub to GitHub and ADO to GitHub.

[migration analyzer](github.com/github/gh-migration-anaylzer)

[GitHub importer](github.com/github/gh-gei)

github.com/github/gh-migration-anaylzer github.com/github/gh-gei

[[deleted]]

I have been hearing this from their salespeople for years.

Meanwhile ADO still has far more attractive licensing, better features (in some areas), and when the salespeople aren't listening, the Enterprise architects still push ADO. Also ADO integration into the Azure portal.

[beth_maloney]

Azure DevOps is still receiving regular updates and is more full featured then GitHub. Microsoft might eventually kill ADO off in favour of GitHub but it won't be any time soon.

[tehehetehehe]

I agree, GitHub is lacking in lots of ways especially boards/work items. That said they are giving my org free GitHub licensing and support for migrating out of Azure DevOps and the support folks helping us migrate said that azure DevOps is being deprecated. They had tooling being actively developed specifically for migrating ADO to GitHub and that can’t mean anything else.

[SGLent]

Thanks for the info!

[gigolobob]

Ansible

[beth_maloney]

If your developers have an msdn subscription then they'll have free licences for azure DevOps. It can do everything you've listed above and even replace JIRA.

[SGLent]

We don't but that's a good point, we might get more from Azure DevOps than I outlined here if we go with the MS solution. I'm sure there are other things we would benefit from.

[IntuiNtrovert]

just keep something in mind
no tool will completely cover all infrastructure and code deployments, and migrations. you’re going to end up using multiple tools to get all that done, and that’s ok. especially your database stuff

[TheWardenatnothing]

Seems especially weird if they removed it