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    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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    Red Hat OpenShift

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AOpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

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    Pricing
    Octopus DeployRed Hat OpenShift
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Octopus DeployRed Hat OpenShift
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    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
    Octopus DeployRed Hat OpenShift
    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
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    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    255 Answers
    Features
    Octopus DeployRed Hat OpenShift
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Octopus Deploy and Red Hat OpenShift
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    Octopus Deploy
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.4
    324 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.6275 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings9.3309 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.3290 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.6262 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings8.3291 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.5273 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.6283 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.3270 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.9284 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings8.1279 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.5285 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Atlassian Bamboo
    Score6.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Atlassian Bamboo
    Score6.7 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Octopus DeployRed Hat OpenShift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    9.1
    (339 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (125 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Octopus DeployRed Hat OpenShift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Red Hat
    Red Hat OpenShift, despite its complexity and overhead, remains the most complete and enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform available. It excels in research projects like ours, where we need robust CI/CD, GPU scheduling, and tight integration with tools like Jupyter, OpenDataHub, and Quiskit. Its security, scalability, and operator ecosystem make it ideal for experimental and production-grade AI workloads. However, for simpler general hosting tasks—such as serving static websites or lightweight backend services—we find traditional VMs, Docker, or LXD more practical and resource-efficient. Red Hat OpenShift shines in complex, container-native workflows, but can be overkill for basic infrastructure needs.
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    Pros
    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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    Red Hat
    • We had a few microservices that dealt with notifications and alerts. We used OpenShift to deploy these microservices, which handle and deliver notifications using publish-subscribe models.
    • We had to expose an API to consumers via MTLS, which was implemented using Server secret integration in OpenShift. We were then able to deploy the APIs on OpenShift with API security.
    • We integrated Splunk with OpenShift to view the logs of our applications and gain real-time insights into usage, as well as provide high availability.
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    Cons
    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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    Red Hat
    • I wouldn't necessarily say there is look everyday technology transform. I can see a trend wherein Red Hat OpenShift is adopting all the new technology trends and helping their customers align with their priorities and the emerging technology trends. I wouldn't call out various scope for development every day. There is scope for development. It is all how the organizations adopt it and how they deliver it to their customers. I don't want to call out there is scope for development. It's happening. It is a never ending process.
    • At the moment, I don't have anything to call out. We are experiencing Red Hat OpenShift and we can see every day they're coming up with new features as and when they come up with new features, we want to experience it more and more. We are looking for opportunities wherein this can be leveraged to help our users and partners.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Octopus Deploy
    Would be a 10 except for the retirement of the free Community Edition.
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    Red Hat
    This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications
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    Usability
    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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    Red Hat
    As I said before, the obserability is one of the weakest point of OpenShift and that has a lot to do with usability. The Kibana console is not fully integrated with OpenShift console and you have to switch from tab to tab to use it. Same with Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafan, it's a "simple" integration but if you want to do complex queries or dashboards you have to go to the specific console
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    Reliability and Availability
    Octopus Deploy
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
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    Performance
    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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    Red Hat
    Overall, this platform is beneficial. The only downsides we have encountered have been with pods that occasionally hang. This results in resources being dedicated to dead or zombie pods. Over time, these wasted resources occasionally cause us issues, and we have had difficulty monitoring these pods. However, this issue does not overshadow the benefits we get from Openshift.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Red Hat
    Their customer support team is good and quick to respond. On a couple of occassions, they have helped us in solving some issues which we were finding a tad difficult to comprehend. On a rare occasion, the response was a bit slow but maybe it was because of the festival season. Overall a good experience on this front.
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    In-Person Training
    Octopus Deploy
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    I was not involved in the in person training, so i
    can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
    with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
    hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
    seamlessly without any issue.
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    Online Training
    Octopus Deploy
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    Red Hat
    We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Red Hat
    The Tanzu Platform seemed overly complicated, and the frequent changes to the portfolio as well as the messaging made us uneasy. We also decided it would not be wise to tie our application platform to a specific infrastructure provider, as Tanzu cannot be deployed on anything other than vSphere. SUSE Rancher seemed good overall, but ultimately felt closer to a DIY approach versus the comprehensive package that Red Hat OpenShift provides.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Octopus Deploy
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    It's easy to understand what are being billed and what's included in each type of subscription. Same with the support (Std or Premium) you know exactly what to expect when you need to use it. The "core" unit approach on the subscription made really simple to scale and carry the workloads from one site to another.
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    Scalability
    Octopus Deploy
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    Red Hat
    This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
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    Professional Services
    Octopus Deploy
    Great support from professional services.
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    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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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    Red Hat
    • That is a complicated question and one that's not easy for me to answer. There's a lot of factors that go into all of the stuff that we just don't have an easy way of measuring. And we realize that while we're implementing Red Hat OpenShift, we've tried to start measuring some of that stuff, but we don't have a baseline to go on. So it's hard to say. What I can tell you is general experience with the platform has been extremely positive from the development aspect. Teams have been very, very happy with the speed at which they're able to do stuff. They've been happy with that. The way it works in one environment is exactly the way it works in the next environment because we don't have configuration drift, that type of thing, and has had very positive impacts. But we didn't have a baseline to start with. So I can't talk about getting there faster or anything like that.
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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.