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What are the Pros and Cons of Pega DevOps & Integrating Azure Devops with Pega?
Hi Linoy,
We are in the phase of framing the process for Pega applications Code deployment process.
We have 2 options available - 1) Pega Devops and 2) Integrating Azure Devops with Pega.
Like to understand pros and cons of using these 2 options in real time pega projects which helps us to decide the process based on real time experiences.
Thanks,
Sunil
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Humana Inc.
US
Sunil,
We have done a Complete CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps, directly integrating with Pega.
Azure DevOps is a very mature product, with many integration options. It is truly an enterprise DevOps suite.
Few things that we have learnt of being on Azure.
Cons
- Custom Solution for any Code smell detection.
- Merging/Branch handling needs to be customized
- Custom solution for Unit Test case handling
- Customize the rollback
Although, most of these above cons require one time investment and thereupon will be very seamless, considering both Azure DevOps and Pega support rest Api's for various needs
With respect of Pros:
- Ability to, most important, fully customize the release pipeline with as many steps as possible.
- Stay compliant with enterprise roadmap
- Does not freeze or hangup
- Has Multiple Agents support required for various deployment hosts
- Fully cloud solution that is does not spin-endlessly like molasses poem
**I understand that is being explored now in Pega 8.X versions.
Hope this helps!!
Cognizant
IN
Hi Sunil, Does it allow you for multiple environment deployment. Can you elaborate what file you have used to call pega service. And what configurations you did.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Sunil, I have posted a more in depth comparison between Deployment Manager and Azure DevOps here - https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/comparing-deployment-manager-vs-open-devops-tools-such-azure-devops-jenkins-bamboo-and
Hope that helps,
Linoy
Everest
US
@PEGATECH, can you please share the steps you followed or key points to consider when you did DevOps with Azure?
How did you establish the integration between pega and Azure DevOps? Is that prpcServiceUtils or directly invoking pega REST APIs?
Capgemini
US
@KasunR48 Were you able to get more information on this topic? I am looking for answers for the exact same questions. Do you have any documentation/architectural diagrams?