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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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Starting at $18 per month
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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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I used TFS back when it was called that, and that was a mess. ADO isn't as bad but has many limitations and things that are hard to do. The main difference is I ENJOY working in Octopus Deploy. Not so much with ADO. I'm always trying to figure out things that are stupid. For example, in ADO, if you use the 'System.StageName' for a stage name, say 'QA.' What would you expect that to return? If you said QAAB87873284126123D723AB54D, Then hats off to you! I would have guessed 'QA,' but no, that is System.EnvironmentName, even though we have no Environments defined in ADO. Yep, Quite clear names. (Might be a bit off on the exact variable names, I think it is a 3 part name in ADO, but you get the idea.) I have also used multiple homegrown deployment systems at different companies, and Octopus Deploy is the cleanest system that I've seen.
July 04, 2021
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Score 9 out of 10
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- Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server) and GitLab
Octopus showed better cost numbers than Azure DevOps and more flexibility against GitLab CI/CD. Octopus customization in step templates that can be reused and easily created gives big advantages against many of its competitors. Octopus was selected for these features and licencing schema that allows us to pay for what we use.
April 26, 2021
Octopus Deploy is a well thought out deployment orchestration solution that is an integral part of our process
Octopus Deploy was the obvious choice at the time, its strong .net support, robustness, ease of use, and integration into an existing process was a big plus. Also, Octopus Deploy was kind enough to give my organization a not for profit community licence. In addition, the product comes from a local Brisbane based company and it is always good to support local businesses when you can.
February 20, 2021
Great tool to automate DevOps
- Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS) and Visual Studio IDE
March 27, 2019
Much simpler and safer implementations.
This software, unlike Chef, is much easier to configure or manage, since its platform provides documentation or tutorials on how to use it, besides its interface is much more modern and easy to use, it allows you to choose where you want carry out the implementations of the applications and configure when and where you want to do it and also provides security when doing this activity so it is very rare that there is a problem after that, while Chef is only based on cloud servers .
March 15, 2019
Octupus - Deploy new code at scale
I am not aware of other products like Octopus that are available, but it is a great product for our company. We can stay ahead of the game by allowing developers to deploy code in a continuous deployment model while still maintaining the overrall infrastructure and enabling more frequent deployments and patches to be released at any time.
February 25, 2019
Octopus Deploy - a great deployment automation tool with an awesome free plan and extensive integrations
TeamCity is focused more on the build process. It's deployment capabilities are weak compared to Octopus. Bamboo is a proper competitor, but it is far more costly for our needs. The free version of Octopus has proven incredibly competent and sufficient for our needs, and Bamboo didn't have anything comparable price-wise when we had to make our decision.
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.
July 02, 2018
Focusing on Deployment with Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy is a deployment focused tool. Its purpose is to manage deployment environments. Tools like TeamCity and Visual Studio Team Services are Continuous Integration tools. You can accomplish many of the same tasks in TeamCity and VSTS but their focus on CI also means they do not typically have full, readily available access to the full features of the deployment targets the way Octopus Deploy does.
We looked at IBM UrbanCode Deploy and Release and Microsoft VSTS while looking for Application Release Automation tools. While VSTS doesn't work with cross-platform technologies IBM UrbanCode Deploy commands a premium price for the features it offers. Also, it needs UrbanCode Deploy and Releases to work well and results in implementation complexity. Octopus Deploy is best suited for MS products and the cost also worked in the selection factor.