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Production deployments at Xero
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, simplified process significantly, anyone can deploy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would love a way to lock down a deployment setup that requires two people to authorise a change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Saved time, increased efficiency and lead to a more frequent release cycle.
Octopus Deploy has one job and it does it brilliantly
What do you like best about the product?
Octopus Deploy gives us the power to control our deployments from development through to production. I can't fault the system in any way however I think the best part of OD is how they give you full control over your variables throughout your deployment workflow by using project variables, role variables, server variables, environment variables and it all works hierarchically so you can get as granular as you like. Variables can even have other variables within them!
OD is also one of the only deployment solutions I found that has a proper and easy integration into Microsoft Azure Web Apps, this was an absolute must for us.
OD's permissions system allows you to give control over to those who need it. Your developers can control deployments across your development severs, you Q&A team to your QA servers and your development managers for production.
OD is also one of the only deployment solutions I found that has a proper and easy integration into Microsoft Azure Web Apps, this was an absolute must for us.
OD's permissions system allows you to give control over to those who need it. Your developers can control deployments across your development severs, you Q&A team to your QA servers and your development managers for production.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost is a bit high for my liking. When considering the alternatives and the functionality differences the price actually does match the value you get, however, for a small company or even a home developer, it can be quiet expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The business case is very easy. Less time spent deploying applications means:
- You have more time to do other things
- You can go to market very quickly, creating opportunities
- The process is consistent throughout all environments making the result more reliable
With single click deployments and permissions systems you can assign responsibilities and hold people accountable.
- You have more time to do other things
- You can go to market very quickly, creating opportunities
- The process is consistent throughout all environments making the result more reliable
With single click deployments and permissions systems you can assign responsibilities and hold people accountable.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Schedule a few days and try it. The investment is worth it 100x over. I would be as bold to say that there is nothing Octopus can not do.
We have been using this for 2 years now. Been easy for us.
What do you like best about the product?
The Octopus process has minimized our production issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for it was difficult at first. But after one or two training classes on it, everything is running smoothly so far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We would always compare code between two versions before. The old code and the new code, make sure everything is in the right place after merging. Now that does not happen. Also if there is a critical issue in production we can easily reverse the process and get a previous version.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Better configuration of Alerts.
Best deployment tool for Windows
What do you like best about the product?
Octopus vastly simplifies the deployment of Windows-based services and websites. What used to be an hour long process of copying files around manually and editing config files is all automated into a process that takes a fraction of the time. The lifecycle management and ability to prevent deployments to production unless they have gone through earlier test environments is a lifesaver.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup of octopus could be a bit more streamlined. Their support and articles are good but the initial setup can take some time to wrap your head around. Some sort of wizard that walks you through setting up a test project and some sample steps would be nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Octopus completely solved the release management process. We can deploy code easily and in a repeatable fashion in a pretty short period of time. We don't waste time any more with manual workflow steps, so it frees up engineers to do other things.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start out with a test environment and some non-production machines to get some experience with it and build up a workflow that makes sense for your environment. If you're using a continuous integration server like Jenkins or Teamcity, use the Octopus plugins to make your life easier.. for example, you can set it to auto-deploy after builds.
Brilliant lightweight tool, with some drawbacks
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of maintaining multiple tentacles to deploy to as well as crafting suitable retention policies for previous builds and releases. Support is reactive and helpful. Constant improvements from version to version with the developers seemingly very attentive to user feedback.
What do you dislike about the product?
The log access and visualisation leaves something to be desired, there's a lot of noise sometimes making it hard to find the root cause of issues. In versions 3.X and lower RavenDB as the artifact management database can cause issues when reaching certain scales. Documentation is occasionally lacking in detail. Monitoring of the core server is not the simplest.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous deployment of .NET projects to a large inventory of Windows VMs. Simple retention of previous release artifacts to allow for easy rollback.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If looking for .NET continuous deployment strategies Octopus provides a great, constantly improving, solution with a variety of useful features for powerful administration.
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