Azure DevOps Alternatives

GitHub is a platform that provides hosting for software development version control for open source and closed source projects. The platform utilize the revision control system Git, and build services around this open-source technology. With GitHub developers and teams can collaborate on software projects and build, host, and promote source code of their own open-source projects. GitHub itself is closed-source and was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for US$7.5 billion.

A web-based tool for DevOps lifecycle management and source code hosing. GitLab, much like GitHub use the open-source technology Git for repository management and code reversion. On top of that GitLab provide extra services like issue-tracking, wiki and CI/CD pipelines for code deployment. The main difference between GitLab and GitHub is that GitLab is open-source and the whole platform can be self-hosted on your own server. GitLab also provides the same hosted repository solutions provided by GitHub.

Jira is a proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian, for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software. With Jira, you can create user stories and issues, plan sprints, and distribute tasks across your software team. Jira allows you to prioritize and discuss your team's work in full context with complete visibility.

With Bitbucket developers and teams can collaborate better on software projects. BitBucket is a web-based version control repository hosting service owned by Atlassian. The software is a suite of tools built on-top of the free and open-source Git repoitory management and version control system. Bitbucket provides features that developers can use to build, test and deploy code with integrated CI/CD.

Jenkins is a free and open source DevOps tool used for ticket systems and CI/CD infrastructure. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any software project. The tool is a self-contained Java-based program that is ready to run out-of-the-box, with packages for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix-like operating systems. Anyone is free to contribute to Jenkins, and the software is released under the MIT license.