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Discussion on: Do you think GitHub Actions has an overwhelm problem?

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Dĵ ΝιΓΞΗΛψΚ • Edited

I tried out github, gitlab and azure devops.
found azure devops to be far superior in terms of simplicity and visual builders. the free tier is quite useable.

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Mark Smith

I’ve read quite a bit about Azure, tutorials etc, the setup for getting apps into the cloud looks quite straight forward. I didn’t read anything about an automation framework like actions though, do they have one?

Does Azure have a workflow type tool as well?

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Dĵ ΝιΓΞΗΛψΚ • Edited

it's called azure pipelines
this is what the yaml editor looks like

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Mark Smith • Edited

Thanks for the links. That looks interesting, the editor appears to have better support for workflow input forms, which are visible even when you are editing the yml file. I wonder if it has drop down lists as well as text inputs.

According to the marketing material you can run GitHub workflows (actions I guess?) on azure. It looks like they use very similar workflow primitives.

I wonder how that’s going to playout because GitHub is also a Microsoft company now.

Have you used Azure pipelines?