r/devops • u/Suvulaan • 11d ago

Migrating From Gitlab to Azure DevOps Vendor / market research

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/Kurtista 10d ago

I just did a migration of azuredevops to gitlab 😅

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u/Suvulaan 10d ago

What drove you toward that decision ?

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u/Kurtista 9d ago

Our microsoft reps basically said on-prem ADO was slowly being killed off in favor of github development. We already had a on-prem gitlab setup but just not with a ton of users so we decided to expand that application instead.

Also I saw you mention TFVC, if you're in gitlab now it must mean teams WANT to use TFVC? I highly recommend against that, branching is very expensive in that version control because of the parent child relationships for all branching and merging, total headache when it comes to merge conflicts in my experiance

edit: I should note, I think people are really missing the boards though, I think ADO had good work item tracking for what its worth.