[BuckRogers]

I use Azure DevOps everyday and like it quite a bit. It'll keep improving but I've had no complaints. Microsoft is in a very enviable position, not just having one of the best IDEs but having control over potentially an entire CI/CD pipeline from Github to Azure, while having one of the major programming platforms in .Net to enable best-in-class integration. No one else can really say they have all of that, not Atlassian, Oracle or Amazon.

The CI component, Azure Pipelines, is the only hosted CI tool that supports all major platforms, at a minimum Windows/macOS/Linux.

The value of essentially fully automating out the role of DevOps engineers is a long time coming, and I used to do that sort of work but saw the writing on the wall with things like Azure DevOps. I think a lot of existing DevOps roles will transition over time to 'Cloud Engineer', specializing in setting up and maintaining hosted CI/CD platforms. There will also be a lot less of them as a result. It's becoming a commodity, MS is just one player there. I love what they're doing and eagerly embrace it, Microsoft has been knocking it out of the park. It works well for us.