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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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Octopus Deploy Technical Details
| 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 15, 2022
Deployments made easy (and stress-free)
- Dashboard visibility makes it v easy to see the state of our test and live servers and projects.
- Single key-press deployments mean that non-technical staff are able to promote from test to live after testing is succesful.
- Integration with Azure makes our pipelines fully automated from code check-in to live deployment
- Arranging the dashboard could be better - filtering to HIDE selected projects would be nice (currently we can filter to SHOW, but I want to show by default,, and hide the ones I don't want)
September 09, 2022
Octopus Deploy, I take my hat off to this product
- A wonderful time saver
- Enabling self-service to non-technical product managers
- Reliable weekly deployments of almost twenty of our (on-line) projects
- I honestly can't think of something that they could do better
September 09, 2022
Octopus Deploy, a real star in a sea of tough choices
- 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
- 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
Fantastic deployment solution
- Reliable
- Intuitive interface
- Works with lots of technologies
- Config as code is still new, some missing features
- Mobile view of the dashboard isn't great in places
- A way to bulk clean up old package versions would be nice
September 09, 2022
Simply a must-have for teams of any size
- Integrating with Team City
- Managing multiple environments
- Custom scripts and variable management
- Disk space management can be tricky to use and it's not set up by default
September 09, 2022
The DevOps Tool you need, even if you don't think you do.
- 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
- UI
- Release deployment
- Dashboard for reporting
September 09, 2022
Octopus Deploy is a good Continuous Deployment tool
- 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.
- .Net Code deployment
- Distributed Powershell scripting
- Config management
- Better Linux/*Nix support
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Virtually zero downtime deployments
- Flexible deploy processes combined with multiple "variable" strategies
- Intuitive interface
- Multitenancy is difficult to set up and maintain variables that change between tenants and environments.
- The dashboard is slightly confusing when groups of projects contain projects with different lifecycles.
- Deployment target status gives warnings for drives close to out of space for hard drives that are tiny and designed for special system use. It would be helpful if we could have some kind of override available.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Per Environment Configuration, 5 Stars. Unlike ADO, you can set a var to a specific environment while still having another one apply to everything else.
- Rapid deployment compared to ADO.
- Easy to set up a new tentacle. The tentacles (deployment targets) can be upgraded with one click.
- Easy access control, easier with the stand-alone version (single step), but not bad with the cloud. Just add a member (invite), wait for them to accept, and then add them to the team you want. Create whatever teams with whatever permissions you need.
- Support - An example: We are in a meeting discussing License costs at 10 Am Central time US. I'm pretty sure of the terms, but they want me to confirm with Octopus. I sent the e-mail [at] about 10:05, I got a response DURING the meeting, about 10 minutes later, with everything we needed. Any time I had an issue, I got a quick response, and they told me what I was doing wrong or how to fix it. Super, super responsive, and they also take your suggestions and improve the product.
- Runbooks - Clean and easy to do. I have to try to make them work as well in ADO, and well, yeah, I'll take Octopus Deploy any day. Their runbooks have saved us TONS of time, avoided errors, and opened up what I do to everyone else without using my time.
- At one point, they didn't have runbooks, I suggested it (and I guess others did too), and now they do.
- I would like to be able to edit a process and then run it without having to do a new build/release. This is something that I've suggested to them, and they are considering implementing. It can be hard to develop the scripts if you have to do a ton of iterations to get them right - At least, if [your] build time is long AND your process is one that you can't deploy the same release over the same release (like one of ours). We are using Octopus Deploy for about eight projects right now.
- I believe they are working on their ISO 27001 certification and don't have it yet. This is something that CSG mandates to keep things secure.
September 29, 2021
Octopus Deploy - A Developer's Friend
- Variable definition and substitution.
- Configurable deployment processes.
- Automated deployments.
- Deployment logging.
- Sometimes it can become overwhelmed by parallel deployments.
September 07, 2021
Octopus Deploy meets all our deployment needs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
July 04, 2021
Octopus Deploy overview
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Create you own step templates
- API that supports any operation
- Good support and community
- Variables management
- Audit management
- API key permissions not attached to user
April 26, 2021
Octopus Deploy is a well thought out deployment orchestration solution that is an integral part of our process
- Simple and well thought out product
- Feature rich
- Excellent support and documentation
- Reliable
- Robust
- 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
February 20, 2021
Great tool to automate DevOps
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
March 15, 2019
Octupus - Deploy new code at scale
- Grouping of servers into tennants allows for easy classification of systems into roles or server types.
- The application allows for simple or complex configurations to be deployed depending on the need.
- I really enjoy the ability to run a new build to a single group of servers or have the same installation run on multiple groups depending on the need.
- Patches or new builds can be ran adhoc or scheduled for a future time allowing for scheduled deployments to be pushed with minimal effort.
- The initial setup and configuration can be a bit daunting.
- There is a bit of a learning curve to learning how to use Octopus effectively, but once that learning is done it becomes simple to use.
February 25, 2019
Octopus Deploy - a great deployment automation tool with an awesome free plan and extensive integrations
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.