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What is Octopus Deploy?
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…
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What is Octopus Deploy?
The Octopus Deploy platform enables developers, release managers, and operations teams to bring automation into a single place.
By reusing configuration variables, environment definition, API keys, connection strings, permissions, service principals, and automation logic, teams work together from a single platform. Octopus Deploy helps to break down silos and improve collaboration so teams can ship and operate software with greater confidence.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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, teams work together from Octopus Deploy.
Octopus Deploy starts at $12.
Reviewers rate Performance and Ease of integration and Contract Terms and Pricing Model highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of Octopus Deploy are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Octopus Deploy Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 15% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 25% |
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- Recommendations
Users have made several recommendations for Octopus Deploy based on their experiences.
One common recommendation is to take the time to learn the product and create clear deployment plans for each software. By familiarizing themselves with Octopus Deploy and carefully planning their deployments, users have been able to simplify and accelerate the deployment process for their applications.
Another recommendation is the effectiveness of Octopus Deploy in deploying binaries and files. Users have found this feature to be reliable and efficient in their deployment workflows, making it an attractive option for companies looking to automate their build process and improve their deployment workflows.
Additionally, users recommend using Octopus plugins with continuous integration servers like Jenkins or Teamcity to streamline the deployment process. By integrating Octopus Deploy with these tools, users have been able to further optimize their deployment workflows and enhance the overall efficiency of their software development processes.
Overall, these recommendations highlight Octopus Deploy's potential to simplify deployments, deploy files effectively, and integrate seamlessly with other tools to streamline the deployment process.
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September 09, 2022
Octopus Deploy, a real star in a sea of tough choices
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.
- Octopus Deploy is versatile, if you can dream it you can do it!
- Octopus Deploy is very user-friendly; from the deployment plan to error reporting, I've always felt in control.
- Octopus Deploy has a generous free plan so you can easily try before you buy.
- Acquiring an instance to run on can take a long time, especially a Linux instance
- Containers are recommended but extremely slow
September 09, 2022
Amazing tool that does everything you'd ever need just at a price you can't afford
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.
- Multiple deployments
- Version control
- Pricing structure
- UI is clunky when you have multiple sites in your infrastructure
- If deploying to single points in 1 area there's no way to represent this is the case and just shows as if everything was deployed to
September 09, 2022
The DevOps Tool you need, even if you don't think you do.
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.<br><br>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.
- Separating out environments, letting us create immutable artifacts which we promote from dev to staging to prod
- Bypassing tricky firewall configs by deploying polling tentacles inside the firewall
- Automating quirky or custom devops scenarios with relative ease
- A build of Tentacle for the M1 Mac (so I can test against my local machine)
- A full Python API wrapper
September 09, 2022
Useful Automation tool
We use it for creating automating release deployments. It has very intuitive User Interface which makes it easy for less technical user like business personnel use. It has a number of plugins to support most of the devops tools to integrate with. What I personally love about Octopus Deploy is its proactive support. We post our queries, issues or requirement via email and they almost respond within hour.
- UI
- Release deployment
- Dashboard for reporting
September 09, 2022
Octopus Deploy is a good Continuous Deployment tool
CI/CD Pipeline is an essential component for DevOps practice and the overall Software Delivery Life Cycle. We use Octopus Deploy in the Continuous Deployment part in our CI/CD pipeline. It helps us deploy code changes quickly and reliably.
- Fetch artifacts.
- Deploy to AWS environment.
- Deploy to Docker Container Clusters.
- Deploy to static website infrastructure like S3 and CloudFront.
- Octopus should have an easy to use IaC.
We primarily use Octopus Deploy to manage and push [the] deployment of our .Net (legacy) and .Net (core) applications. We also use it to automate tasks beyond code deployment. We have additionally begun integration with Kubernetes.
- .Net Code deployment
- Distributed Powershell scripting
- Config management
- Better Linux/*Nix support
September 07, 2021
Octopus Deploy meets all our deployment needs
Score 9 out of 10
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Octopus Deploy has been immensely helpful in helping reduce the 'Mean Lead Time for changes' and increase deployment frequency in our cloud environment. We use it to seamlessly push out new releases in our hybrid public-private cloud infrastructure. The runbooks are super helpful for orchestrating recurring maintenance tasks. Training new team members is a breeze as the UI is mostly intuitive.
- Granular control over tenants for deployments using tags.
- UI makes it easy to train and onboard new team members.
- API documentation is great.
- We have not run into any limitations yet. Perhaps our use case is very simple.
February 20, 2021
Great tool to automate DevOps
Octopus Deploy is being used by our DevOps group to automate the deployment of code. It's used for all automated deployments, which account for almost all of the total deployments, in the web development group. We do not currently employ Octopus Deploy to manage and deploy non-web-developed applications, however, it is used to manage items like certs and password resets.
- Automation of deployments
- Managing pipeline activities
- Requiring a consistency of process
- Improved reporting
- Additional out of the box integrations that work really really well.
- Onboarding and ramp-up may benefit from some AI, so it does not take so much experience to be an "expert."
We aim to have a light-weight and flexible deploy pipeline since we are a small startup. Octopus gives us a good deployment tool that isn't overly complicated. We use it to manage our deployment for all of our products. These include ASP.Net deployed to AWS EC2 hosts, Angular webapp deployed to EC2 hosts, published installers for desktop apps, and scripts to deploy new versions of ECS hosts. (Our builds are handled by Team City which integrates with Octopus nicely)
- Integrates well with various platforms
- Allows customization of deployment process, manual deploys, and redeploys
- Allows flexible deployment process definition and scripting
- UI is very fluffy and padded. It looks pretty but it could benefit from a more compact, information-focused design
- Deployment process options are not always laid out in an intuitive manner. Choosing which steps to exclude, which environments or targets to deploy to, etc., is not immediately clear
- Lack of useful reports and metrics for tracking active deployments and historical data
March 27, 2019
Much simpler and safer implementations.
Software that is ideal to carry out the implementation of software or applications in development, so our company has decided to implement it as part of the software that can facilitate the work of developers in their department, since it has a very simple and easy to use, plus guarantees that everything that is implemented is what is really shown, this way you save time, avoid mistakes and work is much more effective.
- Easy to use because it has a very simple and understandable interface.
- It offers different languages as well as several operating systems.
- Allows it to be implemented on own or third-party servers.
- Your support team is extremely attentive.
- Provides a very user-friendly documentation as it is easy to understand.
- The implementations can be carried out in an automated way thanks to the fact that it allows you to configure if you want to do it immediately or in the future.
- Its price can be high according to where you want to implement the applications.
- Your configuration may take some time so it is necessary to have a good knowledge in this field otherwise it will take more time than expected.
- Their integrations although they are very advantageous can be somewhat complicated.
February 25, 2019
Octopus Deploy - a great deployment automation tool with an awesome free plan and extensive integrations
We use Octopus Deploy to handle deployment of about eight different applications across Development, User Acceptance Testing, and Production environments. Octopus ensures that we have consistent, repeatable results in our deployments through the automation it provides to the deployment process. By using Octopus, we can be confident that the same deployment package that we have been testing in our DEV environment is exactly what gets deployed to our UAT environment, and finally our PROD environment.
- 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.
- I would like to see Octopus handle branches as a first class citizen better. It certainly has branch support, but it is not as smooth or as intuitive as I would like it to be. I would like it to be easier to pick the branch of a repo I want to deploy and where I want to deploy it.
- I think Octopus could do more to help the management of Azure deployments. The ability to swap slots in Azure would be a welcome feature.
Octopus Deploy is used by our department to facilitate the deployment of many applications to many servers. Software deployment is difficult and humans make mistakes. Octopus Deploy makes it very easy to deploy applications to one or several servers with the click of a button. It has allowed us to deploy faster, more consistently, with fewer mistakes and less downtime.
- Many different platforms, languages, and operating systems are supported. You can deploy to your own server or the cloud. You can deploy to Windows, Linux, etc.
- Many different "step templates" are included, which make it very easy to deploy what you want, how you want. Such as deploying over SSH, FTP, etc.
- Support is very responsive and personable. You won't just be talking to a robot or a script. They will either solve your problem or understand it enough to solve it in a future release.
- Their documentation is well thought-out and very helpful. I have found very few missing pieces.
- The pricing model is a bit strange. You can run Octopus Deploy yourself on your own server, or use their cloud service. Surprisingly, the cloud service can easily be less expensive. With self-hosting, pricing doesn't become less expensive with more deployment targets. Instead, it becomes more expensive.
- There are a few features they're aware of, that are not released yet, that would be huge improvements to the software. Such as "Spaces", which allows you to group projects/deployment targets/users. Otherwise at the moment, as you add more projects and infrastructure, the deployment portal quickly becomes cluttered.
- Payment was more difficult than expected. The company is located in Australia. Mailing a check is very slow from the US.
July 02, 2018
Focusing on Deployment with Octopus Deploy
As the DevOps Manager for a Microsoft Gold Partner I configure Continuous Integration Pipelines using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Octopus Deploy. Our Development and Business Intelligence Teams use Octopus Deploy to push custom applications and database changes to Azure IAAS and On-Premises Virtual environments. VSTS manages the CI pipelines while Octopus Deploy manages the granular details of the IIS and SQL Server deployment configurations. Octopus Deploy ensures we have consistent and reliable application deployments across Dev, Test, and Production environments.
- Octopus Deploy provides direct access to IIS App Pools, App Pool Permissions, Directory locations and more. Options are clearly displayed in the interface as opposed to searching out arcane switch statements for command line arguments or complex batch statements used with platforms focused on skills other than deployment tooling.
- Octopus Deploy works extremely well in conjunction with RedGate's ReadyRoll database lifecyle management tool with the same level of configuration capabilities for RedGate's database deployment configuration as for other deployment targets.
- Octopus Deploy agents are generally easy to configure and record a plethora of information about the deployment process and any errors in the deployment process itself.
- Octopus Deploy automatically generates encrypted connections between the Octopus Deploy server and Tentacles ensuring communication between Octopus Deploy and target machines is secure by default. I give customers Octopus Deploy documentation as the first step to allaying security concerns and often find no further discussions are required.
- I prefer VSTS Agent's https "Pull" configuration to Octopus Deploy's "Push". Because VSTS remote agents pull information from Visual Studio Team Services via https, no firewall rules are required when deploying the agents. Octopus Deploy agents typically are configured to be polled from the central Octopus Deploy server and must have firewall rules configured to allow conversations.
- Octopus Deploy's Pipeline configuration can get a bit complex and is sometimes less than intuitive when configuring deployments across multiple environments. While it is possible to use variables to simplify configurations, examples are not readily available and the process for configuring and using variables is not as easy to understand as I would like.
Octopus Deploy is used as the primary tool for automated deployment for a host of applications built using as diverse applications as Microsoft BizTalk, Node.js, and SOA based applications. The automated deployments using Octopus has resulted in the quicker delivery of applications to Prod environments and eliminates the tasks that used to be done manually and were error-prone. This has helped the team focus on building better software and not worry about pushing the changes to Test or Production.
- Deployments are not more error-prone because there is no manual intervention. There had been cases in the past where a thing or two miss would cause a lot of heartburn during Prod release and we had to keep the whole herd together until everything was sorted out. With Octopus Deploy we can test the release with the repeat-ability and chances of running into issues has been minimized a lot.
- Octopus Deploy works really well with the whole stack of Microsoft Products. It was one of the 1st 3rd party tools for Continuous Deployment focused on MS products when it was initially released. Over time, however, it has matured and supports nearly every technology under the sun for implementing automated deployments.
- More frequent and parallel deployments. This is where Octopus really shines. This ensures that the QA team is constantly engaged and not waiting for the Dev team as releases are promoted to Test environments faster and ultimately helps to move new features/bug fixes to Prod faster thereby delivering tremendous business value and puts us in a good light in front of our consumers.
- The tool has a very nice GUI and supports scripting in Powershell, C#, Bash, F#. The Octopus user community has developed close to 80 templates that can be used readily. Octopus works as seamlessly on the Cloud as it works on premises. It has first-class support for both AWS and Azure.
- Support for non-Microsoft applications needs to be improved to bring it on par with other comparable automation tools.
- It doesn't yet provide integration options with other IT management tools like JIRA and HP Support to implement continuous delivery and true DevOps processes.
- Support for AWS/Azure has been included very recently and it's not still very mature and feature rich and is expected to improve further in upcoming releases.