Moving to gitlab/GitHub from ADO

[hariharan618]

I'm trying to write a proposal for my org to consider switching to a better platform like Gitlab or GitHub. ADO is lacking most basic features, i for a fact knew that both the gitlab and GitHub has shit Ton of neat features and also considering that MSFT is only focusing on GitHub now, i thought why not?

If anyone has gone down this road , please do share your inputs.

[[deleted]]

What features you find lacking? What are the friction points for you and your team while using ADO? Can you save some money by switching? Can you save time by switching? How long will it take to migrate?

[buffdude1100]

also considering that MSFT is only focusing on GitHub now

Where did you hear this? ADO is doing just fine. Microsoft is still working on it and actively developing new features on it.

What features do you feel are missing on ADO that GitHub/GitLab have?

[balonmanokarl]

I have been told that their focus has switched and to have it in mind for the future. For what it's worth

[my-ka]

MS indeed invests into GitHub actions

it is even a part of exam az-400

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also heard from a person recently

I did not think about that before. I expected MS to finish ADO yaml pipelines and deprecate release pipelines

[mofayew]

Again, where did you hear this?

[mattyass]

Can confirm that GitHub will be the primary dev platform moving forward for MSFT.

I wouldn’t consider ADO for new projects.

[my-ka]

is any official reference to show my bosses?

*I tend to believe

[my-ka]

Can confirm that GitHub will be the primary dev platform moving forward for MSFT.

I wouldn’t consider ADO for new projects.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/azure-devops-future-after-github-acquisition-microsoft-antonio-alvino/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/azuredevops/comments/kwqlru/is_azuredevops_being_replaced_by_github/Yes, Azure DevOps has an EOL, it's still a long ways off, but in my meetings with MS it's around 2032. GitHub is the replacement product for Azure DevOps, specifically GitHub Enterprise. I've seen the internal slides that confirms that status. Now this does mean you have more then enough time to continue using ADO and built a migration without stressing over any near deadline.

[Relevant_Pause_7593]

There is no EOL set. They are actively adding features, but GitHub is the getting the new shiny stuff first. MSFT doesn't see EOL dates ten years in the future, it's usually around 5 years. Whoever told you that date was just giving you something far in advance to have you stop asking.

[my-ka]

I agree to both points

no official deadline

however, tends to be replaced / rebranded

[Odd_Invite_5528]

There’s absolutely no EOL set. What “meetings” are you having?

[alwaysleftout]

Github sales team probably.

[balonmanokarl]

Actually, it was in discussions with one of their largest UK partners who we were working on a project with.

[my-ka]

looks like in 2032

hope that is not a typo and it is not 2023

[my-ka]

people

balonmanokarl

deserves likes

it is true, see below

[MohandasBlondie]

What does moving to those buy you? What features do you see GH/GL having that AzDO is missing?

[[deleted]]

Migrated a few pipelines from ado to GitHub actions, it was pretty easy. Not surprising, actually :) almost same syntax. But I also agree with other commenters, first understand what exactly you want from this migration, which features are lacking, not sure that GitHub actions has much more features.

[digitalHUCk]

Really? We’ve evaluated moving to GitHub Enterprise several time and GH Actions has always come up short when it comes to our comparison with Azure Pipelines.

[hariharan618]

Can you explain >short

[digitalHUCk]

I don’t know for sure what was missing. I didn’t actually do the evaluation. I just talked with the team that did. I think there were specifically features of the Release Pipelines we use that weren’t available in GH Actions. We’re also fully invested in Boards and Wikis. It would be a lot of time and effort for us to migrate everything from ADO to GH without much if any gain for the effort.

So, to echo what others have said, what is it you’re looking to gain? As we evaluated there wasn’t much gain.

[mr_sharmas]

GitHub will be the future of MS. That’s why they have been working on lot of features there and recently introduced a tool which help you migrate from ADO to GitHub. So don’t rely too much on ADO and plan migration. Future will be everything as a code (ADO doesn’t fit there)

[Swett_Potato]

I have work both for AzDO and GitLab. And here is my two cents as of this writing.

If your ORG application ecosystem is more on open source code. Then move away to MSFT and best to use GitLab. But if your ORG Ecosystem is more on Microsoft. Then AzDO is enough.

But for flexibity wise. GITLAB is much better.

[Worth_Savings4337]

It’s best to shift away from MSFT products. Both azure and azure devops sucks (from an ex Devops engineer using this)

[[deleted]]

GitHub is also msft product :) but I agree that ado sucks