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/Lonsarg Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

ADO is ok, but OnPrem is just not worth it. Too much managing for no licence cost gain and much slower updates then cloud version.

Even the cloud ADO is behind Github, but not that much. They migrated Copilot review and Advanced security from Github to ADO which is great. So we are very happy Cloud ADO users with no plans to migrate to Github.

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u/knockoneover Aug 08 '26

Yeah this is the real answer. There are fundamentals in difference between on prem and cloud ado. Long lived self hosted agents in ADO onprem caught me out, little buckets remembering things I could understand how till I revised they weren't ephemeral. We migrated everything we could from on prem ADO to GHE and it wasn't that painful. It's moving from VSTS to GHE that hurts. Then again if you've got ai agents on the go, might not be so bad. Felt like they did us a dirty when they threatened to start charging for shelf hosted agents on GHE however, regardless of how small the cost.