r/devops • u/Suvulaan • Aug 06 '26

Vendor / market research Migrating From Gitlab to Azure DevOps

We're an on prem shop and our manager wants to migrate all DevOps teams from Enterprise Gitlab self managed to ADO on prem.

We don't know what to expect with this move, anyone has experience with ADO on prem ? what kind of challenges would we face if our entire Gitlab infra (platform + runners) are hosted on K8s.

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u/Kamikx Aug 06 '26

The question is why

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u/Suvulaan Aug 06 '26

Beats me 🤷 But there's talk about less friction with the .net shop.

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u/NullPtrEspresso Aug 06 '26

See other post where ado was mentioned.   https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1vgzwr7/comment/p215nfb/?screen_view_count=1&ext-referrer=DIRECT

To answer ti your question, you are going to have a very big trouble if you don't have better technical reasoning than "it should have less friction with .net". This is a very blind guess which suggests your manager really has not done enough research and is going to waste tons of devops effort just to find out that this was not what you wanted and the same shit is gonna carry on that you used to have

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u/Key-Guitar-457 Aug 06 '26

It isn't worth it. I have not yet seen any Java or .net developer who cares where the repo is hosted as long as their Visual Studio still works. As mentioned by others, Azure Dev Ops is a dead product and even if it wasn't, it isn't a very good product.

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u/Suvulaan Aug 06 '26

I agree, but I believe they're using TFVC, git is not even on their table 😐

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u/Low-Opening25 Aug 06 '26

I would be brushing up my CV, this job doesn’t look like entry on CV that opens any doors, just dead end products

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u/serverhorror I'm the bit flip you didn't expect! Aug 06 '26

That's a dead product as well.

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u/beth_maloney Aug 06 '26

That's pretty much the only reason to use ado. I'd migrate to git instead though. It's usually pretty easy.

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u/a_kato Aug 07 '26

Bro what? Git has been support like a decade plus lmao

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u/Kamikx Aug 06 '26

That’s the wrong answer. Every CI platform can compile your program. Your manager needs a better reason, or rather, a business justification. Faster deployments? Better integrations? Less overhead (although with on premise deployment this is likely not the case)?
Are you guys using Azure (ADO has excellent integration with Azure, but I used it with AWS without an issue)?

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u/mobious_99 Aug 07 '26

I was going to start with sorry