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    Harness

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHarness, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Founded in 2016, Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight.N/A

    Octopus Deploy

    Score8.8 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,…

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    Pricing
    HarnessOctopus Deploy
    Editions & Modules
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    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
    HarnessOctopus Deploy
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    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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    HarnessOctopus Deploy
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    Key User Insights
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    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Score6.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HarnessOctopus Deploy
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HarnessOctopus Deploy
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Harness
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    Octopus Deploy
    Would be a 10 except for the retirement of the free Community Edition.
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    Usability
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Harness
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    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
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    Octopus Deploy
    Great support from professional services.
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    Return on Investment
    Harness
    No answers on this topic
    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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    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.