Open-source alternative  ·  CI/CD Pipeline

Replace Azure DevOps with GitLab CE + Gitea.

GitLab CE for full DevOps lifecycle (repos, CI/CD, issue tracking, container registry) or Gitea for lightweight Git hosting. Self-hosted. No per-user licensing, unlimited pipelines.

You'd keep~R11 912 to ~R115 148/year

Current licence  ·  CI/CD Pipeline

Azure DevOps

~R11 912 – ~R115 148/yr

10-user estimate

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GitLab CE + Gitea

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R115 148/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Azure DevOps's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Basic (5 users)

R11 880/yr

R99/user/month

With GitLab CE + Gitea

Keep R11 880/yr

Basic + Test Plans

R115 200/yr

R960/user/month

With GitLab CE + Gitea

Keep R115 200/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Azure DevOps grows around 10% per year on average. GitLab CE + Gitea hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR51kR102kR153kR204kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R185kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.82M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Azure DevOps → GitLab CE + Gitea, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other ci/cd pipeline migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.