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Excellent tool!
What do you like best about the product?
OctopusDeploy is Easy to install, configure, use and maintain. OctopusDeploy, comes with out of the box deployment templates, as well as interception points for full customization. There's nothing you cannot deploy wit h this tool. I have automated deployment of Windows services, IIS hosted websites, old school (nested virtual directory) websites, Azure Websites, PowerShell scripts, and even scheduled tasks in windows.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of something that I dislike about OctopusDeploy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1- Automated deployment to multiple environments in a Continuous Integration /Delivery pipeline.
2- Full audit capability to meet industry compliance.
3- Access control, OctopusDeploy supports, role based security with Active Directory integration
2- Full audit capability to meet industry compliance.
3- Access control, OctopusDeploy supports, role based security with Active Directory integration
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start automating your build process. You can start with Professional license first for cost considerations. Depending on number of Products that you are deploying, you might never need to upgrade.
Simple and Easy
What do you like best about the product?
Octopus Deploy is a simple but very useful tool that makes it easy to deploy our projects. It has a simple clean interface and works constantly. Perfect for organizations that collaborate.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be slow at times. Larger projects take upwards of ten minutes to deploy. Also can take a few minutes to detect changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this tool to automate our build process and track our deployed versions on dev and production sites.
Use to deploy software fronm TFS.
What do you like best about the product?
So much easier than Harvest. Our legacy deployer. Web UI works pretty well, is fairly intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Only supposed to be for .net budget packages, we have to use for everything (java, angular spa, static media)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Microsoft doesn't have a good deploy tool and our company is too ignorant to use a mainstream deploy tool that works with multiple technologies.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Would recommend a more generic deploy tool.
No other product really compares for Automated Deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Easy of use mainly. It took me about 40 minutes to configure a deployment across 3 environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can seem overwhelming at times because there are so many features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a way to deploy software securely to our servers. We didn't want developers to be involved in that process and wanted complete, fully automation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you can afford it, there is no better product. We are able to deploy to a scalable infrastructure.
Great at installing different Windows drivers and services across all machines
What do you like best about the product?
Octopus is a special class of service, which takes care of installing your product after it gets build, to different Windows machines. The build server builds the code and runs tests, while Octopus takes care of deployment.
What I like is that Octopus has deep integration with TeamCity, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and also a cmdline application for deploying releases that can be integrated with any build server. It can be totally automated (with notification to administrators) to install new builds whenever the build is complete. This is absolutely brilliant and I cant really tell how so many hours of my work time have been saved just due to this.
Beyond just deployment which can also be done with some ad-hoc script using SSH, what really shines is that it identifies the machine versions and installs the required driver and database versions appropriately on each of them with latest security updates. Anyone who have dealt with a number of Windows servers each locked to different versions of Windows have definitely faced the missing driver problem.
What I like is that Octopus has deep integration with TeamCity, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and also a cmdline application for deploying releases that can be integrated with any build server. It can be totally automated (with notification to administrators) to install new builds whenever the build is complete. This is absolutely brilliant and I cant really tell how so many hours of my work time have been saved just due to this.
Beyond just deployment which can also be done with some ad-hoc script using SSH, what really shines is that it identifies the machine versions and installs the required driver and database versions appropriately on each of them with latest security updates. Anyone who have dealt with a number of Windows servers each locked to different versions of Windows have definitely faced the missing driver problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest complaint is that it must be manually installed on each deployment machine, there is no hosted service for this. Maintaining Octopus itself becomes a problem with time, with manual up-gradation required on each machine. There is also no facility to host it as web service on your own intranet which would allow you to get away with installing it only once, on your central server.
Other than this, the UI is not too well-designed and sometimes advanced options are hard to find. It can sometimes crash while doing many operations during a ongoing deployment state. Good thing is that the deployment continues in the background even when it crashes and restarting it often solves the problem.
Other than this, the UI is not too well-designed and sometimes advanced options are hard to find. It can sometimes crash while doing many operations during a ongoing deployment state. Good thing is that the deployment continues in the background even when it crashes and restarting it often solves the problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team maintains a internal package manager and it depends on a few open-source projects which need to be compiled into a single executable. As our dependencies gets updated every month or so, we build new executables and have Octopus Deploy in place to install them in all developer machines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For Windows deployment, Octopus Deploy is a decent choice. It is better than the Windows Server tools which we used earlier.
Implementing Octopus has radically improved our speed to production
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to control a deployment through a shared UI that is easy to use and configure means the whole team can be involved in getting our code to production. The workflow is extremely flexible with a number of plugins available, so it can automatically pick up builds from TeamCity, set our automated tests to run, and deploy to our test environments - it's then a one-click deploy when we're ready for production. The biggest change for us is that it has made managing our environment variables so much easier. The ability to change variables on an existing build, share common variables and update them so quickly has saved us so much time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial configuration can be time consuming and complex, especially when you're dealing with a massive, complicated infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed to production is incredibly important in this industry, and Octopus has dramatically improved this for us. We can get features and fixes to customers quicker and iterate on our products faster. It also has excellent auditing tools.
Makes continuous deployment not only do-able but easy and a joy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
You can install it on the servers that need your application deployed and when hooked into TeamCity and BitBucket or GitHub it makes deployment just a case of pushing your latest code changes and then magically you have deployed your latest changes. no hassles. no human error. encourages continuous deployment
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much to dislike really the only downside is that it isn't open source or free so while there is a free plan if you want to scale it you will have to get your credit card out and it becomes a paid dependency but then again how much time do you save by not having to write this yourself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying your code and applications to staging or production automatically all essentially by a code push, it encourages you to deploy often and removes human error from a deployment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just do it.
I have worked with OD for about 2 years and found to be a very useful and important for company's CD
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the deployment log where you can see pretty much everything and diagnose any occurring issues. Many times I managed to resolve issues just using the deployment log. Also I like the variable substitution which I also use when configuring the application for each environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest I find it slow as user experience. It'll be nice if OD put some effort (which I am sure they did) in increasing the speed of the user experience.
Also I don't like lack of a feature that I find useful - check releases per environment. There is only history if all releases on the environments.
Also variable sets turned not to be working very well for us. We have multiple components sharing variables and single change is breaking for all components.
Also I don't like lack of a feature that I find useful - check releases per environment. There is only history if all releases on the environments.
Also variable sets turned not to be working very well for us. We have multiple components sharing variables and single change is breaking for all components.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation deployment to various client and non-prod environments which is crucial part of our CD strategy. Main benefit is that ones setup it just work :)
Great for pushing releases to a lot of windows machines
What do you like best about the product?
Octopus Deploy is for pushing your built executables to a cluster of Windows machines. Once your build server is done with a new build, you can notify Octopus with its API or keep it looking for changes in a folder, and as soon as it is notified, the built objects are transferred and deployed (including setting up servers and configuring machines) to those remote machines in parallel. Doing this manually is a horror for DevOps and the products that existed before it (like those made by Microsoft as part of VS itself) were either too integrated with other products or way too simple for complex architectures.
1. Push new releases automatically or manual approval - Permissions model for deployment is top-notch here - Pushes can be automated fully if you are very confident about its reliability, or a person can be in charge of authorizing it.
2. Cluster Management - Arguably, the most important part of the deployment is the configuring the class of servers according to their role in your IT architecture and must be done beforehand. Its possible to assign groups, sub-groups and labels to different machines and configure them in batch mode. The visual management options is much better than the older command-line configurations.
3. Documentation - What Octopus does is itself not too complex, but it is all about how good it does the job. Its UI acts as active guide for the Deployment Engineer and the icing on the cake is the nice documentation. Both its UI options and API are explained well in the docs and is welcoming to new users.
1. Push new releases automatically or manual approval - Permissions model for deployment is top-notch here - Pushes can be automated fully if you are very confident about its reliability, or a person can be in charge of authorizing it.
2. Cluster Management - Arguably, the most important part of the deployment is the configuring the class of servers according to their role in your IT architecture and must be done beforehand. Its possible to assign groups, sub-groups and labels to different machines and configure them in batch mode. The visual management options is much better than the older command-line configurations.
3. Documentation - What Octopus does is itself not too complex, but it is all about how good it does the job. Its UI acts as active guide for the Deployment Engineer and the icing on the cake is the nice documentation. Both its UI options and API are explained well in the docs and is welcoming to new users.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have had a few problems while on the beta build -
Installation failed initially due to missing DLL on our Windows 2008 server but after changing it to Octopus username and password (as suggested by their support) fixed the problem. But it still didn't work, showing an internal error message which I couldn't make much out of. At this point, their support just dropped the case asking us to revert back to the primary build, which obviously worked fine.
Installation failed initially due to missing DLL on our Windows 2008 server but after changing it to Octopus username and password (as suggested by their support) fixed the problem. But it still didn't work, showing an internal error message which I couldn't make much out of. At this point, their support just dropped the case asking us to revert back to the primary build, which obviously worked fine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We handle a few .Net projects one for our clients, that need to be deployed across the country on their remote servers few times a year for maintenance purposes and this is a gigantic task which needs to be completed within two days with as less downtime as possible. All the servers need to be on the same version at the same time to make sure no intermittent bugs crop up and Octopus helped us make the switch live on most machines. We still micro-manage a few critical boxes but other things are quite automated.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Octopus Deploy is the most decent option I know of for deploying to Windows clusters and admittedly I have not tried many, but I dont think you can go wrong with this.
Quick, fast and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of using it, previously it was primarily devs and release services that had to deploy, now anyone in the pod can do it.
What do you dislike about the product?
How target roles get clogged up from other releases, holding up simple tasks such as flowdock messages. We new to have a clear definition of what roles should be used for what.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed of releasing. Keeping releases small and moving fast.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a go and see if it works for you.
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