Azure DevOps to GitHub Migration
Navigate the shift from Azure DevOps with confidence. Our Australian based managed migration service helps your organisation move to GitHub.
Migrate your project from Azure DevOps to GitHub for a more modern, secure, and AI-powered application development experience.
Microsoft is strategically investing in GitHub as the future of its development platform.
While Azure DevOps remains supported, new features and innovation are focused on GitHub. This presents a critical opportunity to future-proof your custom applications, enhance your security posture, and empower your development teams with the latest tools.
Don’t let your development practices fall behind. Codify’s expert-led migration service ensures a smooth transition, so you can leverage the power of GitHub without disrupting your business.
Migrating to GitHub can help you overcoming challenges and accessing new capabilities.
Migrating from Azure DevOps is more than just moving code.
It’s a complex process with technical hurdles that, if not handled correctly, can lead to data loss and operational disruption. We manage the technical heavy lifting, ensuring a seamless process that leads to a more modern and effective development environment.
CI/CD Pipeline Migration
Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions have distinct syntax and structures. We handle the complex translation and refinement of your existing pipelines to ensure they function flawlessly on GitHub.
Work Item & History Migration
While migrating code is straightforward, preserving your work items, test plans, and release history requires specialised expertise. Our team uses tools like Zenhub for planning and tracking, which has a rich integration with GitHub Issues, ensuring you maintain your historical context and data integrity throughout the transition.
Security & Access Control
We manage the migration of your security permissions, secrets, and access control models to GitHub, ensuring a strong security posture and avoiding vulnerabilities during the transition.
Future-Proof Development
Once your data is securely migrated, you can begin enjoying the full benefits of the GitHub platform. We’ll enable Codespaces for secure, pre-configured environments and activate AI-powered features in Copilot and Advanced Security to accelerate your development from day one.
Why migrate from Azure DevOps to GitHub?
The shift from Azure DevOps is more than just a platform change, it’s an opportunity to modernise your entire development lifecycle.
For Application Support Managers
Enhanced Oversight
Get better oversight of development changes with support CAB and release notes from GitHub Copilot.
Proactive Vulnerability Management
Use GitHub Advanced Security to automatically track vulnerabilities in your frameworks and packages, scheduling a backlog of improvements to keep your applications secure.
Simplified Management
Reduce the overhead of managing development environments for multiple applications via Codespaces.
For Developers
Improved Efficiency with GitHub Copilot
Use Copilot to track down and fix bugs quickly, providing intelligent code suggestions and a “second pair of eyes” to improve code quality.
Access New Development Tools
Move to a platform that is actively receiving new features and innovations from Microsoft.
Secure Coding Environments
Utilise GitHub Codespaces for secure, consistent, and pre-configured development environments for every project.
Our 3 step migration process
1. Assess
We begin with a comprehensive analysis of your existing Azure DevOps projects, including code repositories, work history, and CI/CD pipelines, to create a tailored migration plan.
2. Migrate
We handle the technical heavy lifting of migrating your code, work items, and build history to GitHub. This includes enabling key features like GitHub Advanced Security and Copilot for your teams.
3. Optimise
We provide ongoing support to help your teams adopt the new platform, configure governance frameworks, and optimise your new workflows to maximise the benefits of GitHub.
About Codify
Codify is a Microsoft Solutions Partner with proven expertise in guiding businesses through complex platform migrations. We are ISO 27001 / ISO 9001 certified, and our Secure Coding policy, powered by GitHub, is a key differentiator for public sector, enterprise, and regulated industries.
Frequently Asked Questions about the move from Azure DevOps to GitHub
Is Microsoft replacing Azure DevOps with GitHub. What does this mean for our existing projects?
This change is a strategic move by Microsoft to consolidate its platform investment. For your projects, it presents a key opportunity to future-proof your development lifecycle. Our service can help you seamlessly migrate your code and work history to GitHub, where you can leverage powerful new features like advanced security and AI-driven tools, ensuring your applications remain modern, secure, and scalable for years to come.
We've used Azure DevOps for years. Will migrating be a huge headache?
That’s a valid concern. Migrating a complex project with years of history can be challenging, especially without a clear plan. The biggest headaches usually come from a lack of preparation, not the migration itself. Our service is designed to minimise disruption. We start with a full assessment and create a tailored plan to migrate your code, work history, and pipelines, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal downtime for your teams.
Is GitHub really ready for enterprise-level projects? I thought it was just for open-source code.
That’s a common misconception. GitHub has evolved significantly and is now the leading platform for enterprise development. It offers robust features like advanced security, centralised governance, and collaboration tools tailored for large organisations. The platform is not just for open-source, it’s built to handle the scale, security, and compliance needs of enterprise-level projects.
Our team is comfortable with Azure DevOps. How do we get buy-in for this change?
That’s a key challenge for any platform shift. The best way to get team buy-in is to focus on the benefits for their day-to-day work. GitHub’s AI-powered tools and Codespaces can make their coding more efficient, and advanced security features reduce their workload by proactively finding vulnerabilities. Our service includes training and support to help your team get up to speed quickly, ensuring a smooth and enthusiastic adoption of the new tools.
We have a large amount of historical data in Azure DevOps. Can you ensure our work items and project history are not lost?
This is a critical concern, and we manage it as a core part of our service. While data integrity is our top priority, a successful migration is also about enabling a new way of working. To get the most from GitHub’s AI features, teams will need to adopt GitHub Issues for work management. Our approach includes helping your team transition to this new workflow, which can be seamlessly managed with a powerful agile solution like Zenhub. We ensure all your historical data is preserved while setting you up for a future of enhanced efficiency and intelligent software development.
We use Azure Pipelines for all our CI/CD. How will that work on GitHub?
The CI/CD process on GitHub is managed through GitHub Actions, which has a different syntax and structure than Azure Pipelines. Our service includes a dedicated stage to assess your existing pipelines and translate them into efficient GitHub Actions workflows, ensuring your automated build and deployment processes are not only preserved but optimised for the new platform.
Ready to move your application development to GitHub?
Contact us today to schedule a migration readiness assessment and learn how we can help your business make a seamless transition to GitHub.