The DevOps Tool you need, even if you don't think you do.
September 09, 2022

The DevOps Tool you need, even if you don't think you do.

Jason Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Octopus Deploy

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.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • A build of Tentacle for the M1 Mac (so I can test against my local machine)
  • A full Python API wrapper
  • 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
I haven't needed support in a while, but back when I did it was always detailed, friendly and fast, and you're usually no more than a step away from an engineer who's worked on the feature you need

Do you think Octopus Deploy delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Octopus Deploy's feature set?

Yes

Did Octopus Deploy live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Octopus Deploy go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Octopus Deploy again?

Yes

Loses one point because I still occasionally sigh over needing multiple clicks to get from A to B.

At the same time, I understand why that can be a good thing, if you need quality gates and sanity checks.
It's a brilliant deployment engine on the infrastructure side of a build pipeline. You _can_ shift it further left, but it is better used once your CI server has generated artifacts

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