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Octopus Deploy, a real star in a sea of tough choices
September 09, 2022

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

Jonathan DeMarks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Octopus Deploy

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
  • The low cost and high level of automation saves us time and allows highly paid resources to stay on task instead of performing repetitive work
  • Product owners can now take control of deployments since the interface is friendly enough for them to use
  • Testing before deployment saves us from potential production outages
  • The ability to one-click roll back a deployment allows anyone on the team to convert a major event into a minor issue
Octopus Deploy support has always been there for us, even when using the free tier, we get responsive hands-on help. We haven't needed to use that level of support since the documentation is clearly written, and help is readily available within the interface itself. Using Octopus Deploy is a truly joyful experience.

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

It's clear that UI/UX is a top priority for the folks at Octopus Deploy: all functions are clearly laid out, help is readily available at every step of the process, and it's very easy to re-run, again and again, even skipping steps to help polish your deployment into something that works not only for you but the entire team.
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.