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Octopus Deploy

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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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9 out of 10
July 04, 2021
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Pricing

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Cloud

Free 30 day trial

Cloud
unlimited targets/users/projects

Server

Free 30 day trial

On Premise
unlimited targets/users/projects

Enterprise

Starting at $18 per month

On Premise

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://octopus.com/pricing/overview

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $12 per month
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Product Details

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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Octopus Deploy Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Jenkins, TeamCity, and Azure DevOps Services are common alternatives for Octopus Deploy.

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

Consumers15%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)20%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)25%
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Reviews and Ratings

(45)

Community Insights

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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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Reviews

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September 09, 2022

Octopus Deploy, a real star in a sea of tough choices

JD
Jonathan DeMarks
Sr. Manager Technology
SPS Commerce (Information Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus Deploy is a fantastic product. It shines particularly well in deployments, as the name would indicate. Our use case is for deployment and post-deployment automated usability testing, and the process steps provide a very clear mechanism to configure the runs. We have been able to deploy to machines of all kinds and operating systems, to jobs, and FaaS, all without too much effort or team stress. If you're just starting out with a deployment service or you're a veteran, Octopus Deploy is well worth investigating.
September 09, 2022

Amazing tool that does everything you'd ever need just at a price you can't afford

AF
Andy Faulkner
Senior Software Developer
Flight Club Darts (Hospitality, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think for any business having to manage custom software at multiple endpoints there's not really anything better. It's just the new pricing model is pretty extreme and will price out any small to medium enterprises from their service. I love the product even with all the UI issues but yeah currently having trouble recommending it because the cost to service is now out of control.
September 09, 2022

Fantastic deployment solution

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus Deploy has been able to do everything we've set out to make it do. Most of the time there are either built-in or community made step templates, but we've also authored a handful of our own. I have used it for deploying to Windows servers, Linux servers, and Docker containers in Azure. We've predominantly deployed applications written in dotnet and JavaScript.
September 09, 2022

Simply a must-have for teams of any size

Stefano Altieri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stefano Altieri
Senior Software Developer
Altaine (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus starts being useful the first time you ever deploy but quickly becomes vital as soon as you start versioning or going to production. It's sure some work to set up but definitely worth it. The only time when we don't use it of for disposable PoCs.
September 09, 2022

Useful Automation tool

RV
Rakesh Verma
Senior Application Developer
Citco (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus Deploy is specifically suited if you have a very specific requirement for your release pipeline, it gives the option to create a runbook too where you can have steps that need to run after deployment step is run successfully. It also provides tenants option, if you want to deploy same application with different vendor with minor changes.
November 30, 2021

Octopus is a good value and very effective for .Net (legacy & core) applications

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
- Octopus Deploy has been a real time-saver for deploying of .Net (legacy) and .Net (core) applications. We have integrated ("Fed") it with Jenkins and TFS, allowing seamless SDLC from developer repo to production deployment.
- We have also used it to avoid "touching" servers for routine Powershell-automated tasks.
October 18, 2021

Used it for 4 Years, Excellent, Easy to learn, Easy to Manage/Maintain

Chert Pellett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chert Pellett
Software Architect
CSG, Safe Harbor Marinas (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have an application that deploys to a website, this works quite well. (Just don't have more than one tentacle running on the same machine and deploying websites there - there isn't any sensible reason to do that anyway - but we had it set up that way for a while since changing that it worked perfectly. If you need to deploy a Windows application to a bunch of machines, this is awesome, you can add a machine in a few minutes, and it is done. You can easily see all the machines that it is deploying to; they run in parallel, so that is great. One where it might be bad [is] when I worked at Robot Entertainment, we needed to deploy to 25,000 machines at once. Based on the pricing model, this would be bad, plus I'm not sure how well it would handle easily figuring out what was deploying and where. In our case, I took a program that was started for that and rewrote it to deploy to all the machines at once - so we rolled our own. However, it was a very specific use case that isn't likely you would need unless you were developing a League of Legends type app.
September 29, 2021

Octopus Deploy - A Developer's Friend

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited to development environments utilizing multiple branches with multiple releases. Teams can target specific release branches, which can be configured to trigger builds and Octopus deploys. Allows QAs to promote successful builds to higher environments and has permissions to limit who has the ability to promote.
September 07, 2021

Octopus Deploy meets all our deployment needs

Siddharth Shettigar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Siddharth Shettigar
Site Reliability Engineer
ThoughtFarmer (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
[Octupus Deploy] is well suited to seamlessly manage a large number of tenants across multiple cloud environments from one interface. It is great for multi-step deployment orchestration. Additionally, great documentation and informative webinars hosted by the team help provide further information on how to leverage this awesome tool. Perhaps it is overkill if you are hosting in a one-cloud environment or have a small number of tenants.
July 04, 2021

Octopus Deploy overview

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus is good for companies with multiple environments and projects. Allowing you to have a good segregation on users, environments and releases.

It is hard to manage in scenarios that need to be generated programatically from scratch because Octopus requires an agent installed and registered in Octopus server before deployments.

April 26, 2021

Octopus Deploy is a well thought out deployment orchestration solution that is an integral part of our process

Verified User
Professional in Corporate
Research Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus Deploy is a well though [the] solution to the deployment orchestration problem. It is a reliable and robust solution that is relatively simple to understand. [Its] UI is friendly and easy to use, The support and documentation [are] excellent and the product seems to fit into any organization’s process very well and with less effort than other products in this space. I actually find it a pleasure to work with [every day] and I am glad to have it as an integral part of our process.
February 20, 2021

Great tool to automate DevOps

Jeffrey Staw | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeffrey Staw
Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)
Open Technology Solutions, LLC (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus Deploy is a tool that we rely on to make our DevOps shop and Development team run smoothly on a daily basis. When looking to streamline the deployment process and pipeline, and when looking to add process, Octopus Deploy is a tool to help make that happen in a structured way.
June 27, 2019

Keeps our deployment pipeline lightweight, quick, and flexible

Anthony Aziz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anthony Aziz
Senior Software Engineer
Full Circle TMS (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
  • The ability to manage different stages and define a workflow is very useful for ops troubleshooting as well as deployment. You can see which version each environment has for each project, and promote or redeploy versions.
  • You can view deployment logs and dig deep into problems or long deployment steps.
  • Finding old releases can be a pain, and there isn't a good way to compare releases.
  • It does not really lend itself well to viewing what the content of a release is further than the version number. Ideally, you would be able to tie a deployment to the builds from the build server as well as specific commits from source control.
March 27, 2019

Much simpler and safer implementations.

Hanna Bedoya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hanna Bedoya
Software Developer
iModules (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It allows the work to carry out the implementations manually, much faster because it is carried out in an automated way, which is a great time saver. It gives the development team the option of choosing where they want to carry out the implementations of their applications according to their need or comfort, either in virtual form (in the cloud) or physically. The implementations carried out are always secure, however, if you want to carry out such implementations on your own server, the cost is much higher.
March 15, 2019

Octupus - Deploy new code at scale

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Being able to use tenants allowing you to take specific actions on a particular subset of servers that are grouped by function or role is a huge plus. It is well suited to deploying simple configuration changes or single scripts as well as laying down entirely new code. It has helped our company grow at scale without being overwhelmed with the sheer number of servers that we must maintain as we grow and allows us to maintain hundreds of servers in 3 different locations with little user interaction.
February 25, 2019

Octopus Deploy - a great deployment automation tool with an awesome free plan and extensive integrations

Tim Hardy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tim Hardy
Software Architect
Omega Creations, LLC (Apparel & Fashion, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any software shop that deploys multiple applications across multiple environments can benefit from Octopus Deploy. If you already have a custom deployment framework in place, Octopus might not offer anything new for you. It's also noteworthy that the free version of Octopus offers a great deal of functionality. We are still using the free version and are just now possibly needing to move to a paid version.
January 02, 2019

Octopus Deploy: a solution to all of your software deployment problems.

Sam Rueby (MCSA) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sam Rueby (MCSA)
Senior ASP.NET Web Application Engineer
Bross Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus Deploy is well suited when you have more than a handful or servers or more than a handful of projects. You don't want developers publishing from Visual Studio. Octopus Deploy makes it easy to deploy correctly every time.
July 02, 2018

Focusing on Deployment with Octopus Deploy

Eric Huggins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eric Huggins
DevOps Manager
Advanced Imaging Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would prefer to use a dedicated deployment tool in CI Pipelines whenever possible. I would have rated Octopus Deploy a 10 except for the recent removal of the free Community Edition product. While understandable, the added cost for small individual customer projects may now be too high to continue using Octopus Deploy on every project. If it were not for the retirement of the Community Edition Octopus Deploy would be a part of all deployment processes and pipelines.
June 07, 2018

Take the Pain out of Release automation with Octopus Deploy

Ramendra Sahu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ramendra Sahu
Sr. Integration Developer / DevOps Engineer
NRECA (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Octopus Deploy is one of the best options you've got if you are a Microsoft shop. It works seamlessly and is very easy to use and set up. The low cost of the product makes it an attractive option for organizations implementing Release automation processes. If you are an organization working with open source technologies and not much invested in Microsoft products it makes sense to look at alternatives out there which are great.
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