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Microsoft Azure DevOps vs Spinnaker comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Ranking in Release Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
139
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (2nd), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (1st)
Spinnaker
Ranking in Release Automation
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure DevOps is 22.5%, down from 30.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spinnaker is 2.1%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure DevOps22.5%
Spinnaker2.1%
Other75.4%
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Featured Reviews

Anil Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Ai Solutions & Digital Transformation Lead at UnifyCloud
Task management has become transparent and reporting now tracks team productivity in detail
I reduced my rating from a perfect score because of one concern. Microsoft Azure DevOps is very easy to use. If any person is new to the platform while creating user stories or repositories, it is a very efficient way for people to work. The platform does not require in-depth training. If someone provides a one to two hour description, people with some technical knowledge would understand it greatly. The platform is interesting for both fully technical and non-technical persons. People can use it easily and it is understandable. Anyone can create a user story or Microsoft Azure Board, generate reports using SQL queries while adding conditions, or monitor tasks. Any person with admin rights can see graphs showing which resources have spent how many hours on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Based on that information, we can measure resource performance, which would be really helpful for management or HR departments when increasing employee salaries, offering appreciation, or providing bonus activities in an organization. Regarding governance and security within Microsoft Azure DevOps, there is strong security because Microsoft provides a secure and productive environment that follows all compliances. Everyone can trust Microsoft because it is a reputable brand in the market. People can rely on and trust any Microsoft product. I am not talking about Microsoft Azure DevOps only, but also CRM, Windows, security, and Entra ID. With any Microsoft product, there is no need to worry about security or compliance concerns. From a security and governance point of view, Microsoft Azure DevOps provides very strong capabilities.
Anurag Bandyopadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Development Engineer at Razorpay
Useful to create custom pipelines
Regarding areas for improvement, one significant issue is the lack of maker-checker flows to ensure that newly created pipelines are accurate and tested. We currently use an in-house abstraction over Spinnaker to verify pipeline specs, environment variables, etc. It would be beneficial if Spinnaker could offer this functionality within their product.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it saves time."
"It's a pretty problem-free solution."
"Some of the valuable features are the interface and the workflows are easy to learn and to manage."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure DevOps for me is its robust version control functionality, which is critical for our workflow."
"You can have test cases in DevOps but not in JIRA. And, DevOps has advantages in terms of executing those test cases."
"The solution integrates well with other Azure services and third-party tools."
"I have experience with other solutions and with this one, you can add many addons without any difficult configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its intuitive interface for converting existing Kubernetes specs into working pipelines. It's easy for anyone to deploy anything on any environment when they need to test or deploy for a specific merchant or use case. Instead of going into the specs and changing different variables, they can do it through the UI, which is very useful."
"Spinnaker is used for automating a variety of deployment tasks, infrastructure, provisioning tasks, and all kinds of things."
"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."
 

Cons

"The initial three months were particularly challenging, and without the help of an external consultant, adapting to the change in work processes would have been difficult."
"Improvements can be made mostly on the team management aspects."
"The solution could work to improve their reporting."
"If they could build up requirement traceability metrics, then it would be great."
"The good part is that it's a complete package, but at the same time, once you've gone with them, you don't have much leverage to split out into some other activities because everything is interconnected and entwined by that time, and it would be like a monopoly."
"Improving the metrics that are readily available on the dashboard would be very helpful."
"It should be easier to manage Licenses especially because it's in the cloud."
"Being more technology-agnostic through ease of integration would be beneficial."
"Regarding areas for improvement, one significant issue is the lack of maker-checker flows to ensure that newly created pipelines are accurate and tested. We currently use an in-house abstraction over Spinnaker to verify pipeline specs, environment variables, etc. It would be beneficial if Spinnaker could offer this functionality within their product."
"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."
"Every time it goes to run a pipeline, it just generates a lot of data, and its database is not exactly tuned out of the box, meaning it is not tuned for high scalability."
"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know what we pay, but I do know what I've seen online. If we switched to JIRA, we will basically have to double our costs because we still have to pay for the DevOps licensing. We're probably spending $100 a month on it. It has only standard licensing fees."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps is free for up to five users and allows you to track a maximum of three projects."
"Its pricing is reasonable for the number of features that you get and the functionality that you can utilize for the agile delivery, which is what we are using it for. I found it extremely cost-effective."
"We pay a monthly license for Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"The price of this solution is fair."
"We do not pay licenses for this solution."
"This product could maybe be cheaper. My organization handled licensing, so I'm not aware of which subscription they have."
"Spinnaker is a free-to-use, open-source solution."
"Spinnaker is an open-source product. The tool is completely free for users."
"The solution is open-source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business44
Midsize Enterprise28
Large Enterprise70
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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
Microsoft Azure DevOps: what is your experience regarding pricing and costs ?
I am not much involved in the pricing, licensing, or costing aspects. However, one of my colleagues is involved in the licensing and pricing part, and it is very efficient. We are Microsoft Gold Pa...
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Also Known As

Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
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