Octopus Deploy

We use Octopus Deploy for Automated deployments of new releases through different lifecycles and environments.

We receive a signed off version update of the application which is packaged into a release. This release can be deployed then to all the relevant DEV/QA/TEST/PRE/PROD Environments.

The version cannot move from one environment to the next until approved and signed off.

Due to the nature of our product it is important the release remains consistent throughout the release lifecycle - Dev to Prod. Octopus Deploy ensures this consistency by removing manual steps such as packaging the release and the installation steps for each.

• Time saved on deploying new releases
• Fewer human errors with a consistent automated process
• Octopus Deploy has replaced a number of scripts with an interface that is easier to understand and debug

Azure DevOps

Octopus Deploy is used within our organization to provide continuous deployment to the development environment with manual gates for production deployment. Octopus Deploy is able to handle any environment or application, from very old legacy applications deployed to Windows Scheduled Tasks all the way to cloud-native function and service applications.

• The low cost and high level of automation saves us time and allows highly paid resources to stay on task instead of performing repetitive work
• Product owners can now take control of deployments since the interface is friendly enough for them to use
• Testing before deployment saves us from potential production outages
• The ability to one-click roll back a deployment allows anyone on the team to convert a major event into a minor issue

We use Octopus Deploy to deploy software across the whole estate and to ensure version control is adhered. Octopus has been great in allowing us to expand across the world and has become an important tool in our product cycle. It's a shame that their change in pricing structure for their cloud service is now pricing us out of continuing to use the service long term.

• The ability to deploy software updates on the fly is amazing
• The return on investment has got to the point where we're going to have to look to replace it in the next 12 months due to spiraling costs.

Octopus Deploy is helping to solve bottlenecks in getting code changes out to our Cloud Environments, as well as helping us automate our DevOps Tooling around database housekeeping, environment automation and general DevOps. The granular permissions model lets us empower developers without handing them the keys to the entire cloud castle, and the detailed auditing gives us the agility we need with confidence we can trace problems back to their source.

We're also planning for a small number of quirky use cases where the polling tentacle forms a useful bridge between PaaS out in the cloud and disparate services running behind NATs and Firewalls.

• We're still early in adoption, but we're already delighting Developers with the prospect of quick, easy, reliable deployments
• The cloud product is extremely affordable for small teams, you'd be mad not to spin one up

We have used Octopus Deploy for many years now for our CI/CD (Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment) of roughly twenty projects. After a steep first learning curve and the initial investment of time and effort in the deployment projects, Octopus Deploy has saved us an uncountable number of hours in the past eight years. In all my career, I have seldom encountered such a versatile, powerful, and well-engineered software product. Support is also very responsive.

• A huge ROI
• No negative impact whatsoever (except initial investment of time & effort for steep learning curve)