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The tentacles are reaching all the things
What do you like best about the product?
It was built completely on the concept of remote PowerShell and it treats everything as a package to deploy. This simplified the mindset of how to get work deployed and running. It also had a decent community and fair number of extensions to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
It was not straightforward to get the actions of what it was doing in the code repo. Which makes it hard to test beyond writing some conventional PowerShell inside your repo. It also felt a little icky packaging some of the things into nuget that you wouldn't normally think to do.
Until recently you couldn't deploy directly to a linux agent which makes sense for a Windows type tool but it still became an issue and needed to be solved in goffy ways.
Until recently you couldn't deploy directly to a linux agent which makes sense for a Windows type tool but it still became an issue and needed to be solved in goffy ways.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Development workflow including CD.
Immediate benefit of removing as much of the human element of a deploy as possible and really designing a deploy rather than getting a bunch of steps in a wiki.
Immediate benefit of removing as much of the human element of a deploy as possible and really designing a deploy rather than getting a bunch of steps in a wiki.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't just use octopus to deploy also get the configuration of your environment under control. Embrace CD and let things deploy when approved.
Effortless deployments, automated and on demand.
What do you like best about the product?
Makes deploying solutions to both on-premise and cloud services a breeze.
Octopus agile development upgrade cycles - they release a lot of nice features on regular basis.
Octopus agile development upgrade cycles - they release a lot of nice features on regular basis.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to dislike. I've been preaching about the product since I started using it.
Initially, their azure support was limited, but thanks to their regular updates, that area has improved greatly.
Initially, their azure support was limited, but thanks to their regular updates, that area has improved greatly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smooth, automatic and effective deploys, with no chance of human error.
Quality assured deploys every time.
Quality assured deploys every time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to deploy the same package to every environment, you can. Just use the built-in config transforms to change what's necessary.
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 :)
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