It's easy to use for easy things. Fortunately most of what I do is easy. It's harder to do harder things but in most cases it is possible to work within the constraints of the system. The documentation is pretty good once you figure out where it is. ...
Inability to define jobs as code. Everything is declarative, which is great when you're learning but not if you have multiple jobs that share the same properties with small variances.
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...
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...
It's easy to use for easy things. Fortunately most of what I do is easy. It's harder to do harder things but in most cases it is possible to work within the constraints of the system. The documentation is pretty good once you figure out where it is. ...
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...
Inability to define jobs as code. Everything is declarative, which is great when you're learning but not if you have multiple jobs that share the same properties with small variances.
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...