IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery vs. Octopus Deploy

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.
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Octopus Deploy
Score 9.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Australian company Octopus Deploy offers their eponymous automated deployment and release management software that integrates with the user's preferred CI server and adds deployment & ops automation capabilities. Octopus Deploy enables developers, release managers, and operations folks to bring all automation into a single place. The vendor states that by reusing configuration variables, environment definition, API keys, connection strings, permissions, service principals, and automation logic,…
$0
per month
Pricing
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryOctopus Deploy
Editions & Modules
Lite
$0.00
Professional
$35.00
Authorized user per month
Octopus Server - Professional
$1920
per year starting with 20 projects
Octopus Cloud - Professional
$4170
per year starting with 20 projects
Octopus Server - Enterprise
$14400
per year starting with 100 projects
Octopus Cloud - Enterprise
$23400
per year starting with 100 projects
Cloud
Free
10 users/10 projects/10 tenants/10 machines
Server
Free
10 users/10 projects/10 tenants/10 machines
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryOctopus Deploy
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsOctopus Deploy offers a Free tier (Cloud and Server) and a 30-day free trial of the Enterprise tier. No credit card needed. Octopus also offers a Professional tier with 8/5 support (9 am–5 pm on weekdays). The Enterprise tier provides advanced features for teams to scale, including high availability, DevOps Insights, ServiceNow & Jira Service Management integration, unlimited instances, 24/7 support & service credits, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager.
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryOctopus Deploy
Features
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryOctopus Deploy
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
8.5
4 Ratings
12% above category average
Octopus Deploy
-
Ratings
Task Management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Search9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
7.6
6 Ratings
4% below category average
Octopus Deploy
-
Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Collaboration7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryOctopus Deploy
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(16 ratings)
8.6
(24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.4
(10 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.2
(9 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryOctopus Deploy
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy is well suited for our requirements of deploying across multiple environments with one consistent release. We are saving a lot of time by not having to package and move release files around. Our release process is more efficient and consistent with automation. There are some parts that we could probably perform with existing tools such as DevOps and there are one or two features we have to workaround to fit for our setup such as the step templates to install websites. These are minor in our opinion.
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Pros
IBM
  • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
  • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
  • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
  • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
  • Provides space for the data storage.
  • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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Octopus Deploy
  • Octopus integrates nicely with TeamCity, our build server.
  • Octopus uses the same deployment packages across environments and makes it easy to track their progress across those environments.
  • Octopus makes it easy to handle configuration across environments which is usually a particularly difficult task.
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Cons
IBM
  • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
  • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
  • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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Octopus Deploy
  • In the past has been somewhat .net focused but that has been changing in recent times
  • Would be great if community licenses for NFP organizations were perpetual - but in saying that I appreciate that Octopus does provide my organization with a community [license]. Not all organisations do
  • I can’t think of any other
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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Octopus Deploy
Would be a 10 except for the retirement of the free Community Edition.
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Usability
IBM
Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy has greatly helped us to improve our reliability and frequency of our deployments and given us the confidence to deploy much more often, with a direct benefit to customers. Cross-platform support and release to Cloud require more focus on the product side.
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Performance
IBM
No answers on this topic
Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy is a software that runs very effectively, is easy to use, does not require such a high learning curve, provides the necessary tools to carry out the functions it offers, making it a very flexible software, it also allows that can be configured according to the needs of the user and provides integrations with other very advantageous tools since they are carried out in a very favorable way.
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Support Rating
IBM
In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy support has always been there for us, even when using the free tier, we get responsive hands-on help. We haven't needed to use that level of support since the documentation is clearly written, and help is readily available within the interface itself. Using Octopus Deploy is a truly joyful experience.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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Octopus Deploy
There aren't really any competitors in the land of ASP.NET. Deployment is too ad-hoc. Other tools exist that have massive downsides, like Web Deploy. Most aren't even supported anymore. You could argue that containers (Docker) are a competitor, but containers cannot be used for everything and solve a somewhat different problem. Octopus Deploy is even able to help with containers. To us, Octopus Deploy was really the only really polished solution.
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Professional Services
IBM
No answers on this topic
Octopus Deploy
Great support from professional services.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
  • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
  • Contains great AI capabilities
  • The documentation needs improvement.
  • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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Octopus Deploy
  • Allows us to deploy to our fleet quickly and without interruption to service
  • Can roll back to previous releases quickly, allowing us to back out of breaking changes in the worst-case scenarios.
  • Integration with several targets has allowed us to explore new platforms for our products, such as Docker in AWS ECS.
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ScreenShots

Octopus Deploy Screenshots

Screenshot of where Octopus provides real-time visibility into which application versions are deployed across all environmentsScreenshot of some of the 500+ pre-built step templates for Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Terraform, and Docker, to define deployment processes.Screenshot of the interface to create a deployment process once and reuse it across all environments, ensuring consistent deployments from development through production.Screenshot of tenanted deployments, which allow users to deploy unique application versions to individual customers or business units while maintaining centralized control and visibility across all instancesScreenshot of the audit log, which captures every deployment action, change, and user activity with full attribution and timestamps, providing accountability for compliance and security.Screenshot of the Runbooks that enable teams to automate routine operational tasks like backups, certificate renewals, and infrastructure maintenance, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistent execution of critical procedures.