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What is Octopus Deploy?

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. At Octopus, we create happy deployments, and by extension, happy software teams. Founded in 2012, our vision is for all software teams to look forward to deployment time; to be excited about seeing their changes deployed and used by their customers. We want them to deploy more and more frequently, and to feel 100% confident it will just work. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects. - Effortless scaling - Deploy consistently, quickly, and without duplicating effort to thousands of locations or customers. Tenants let you use one deployment process for thousands of customers. See all your deployments at a glance on a single dashboard. - Faster deployments - Deploy faster and more frequently to thousands of application hosts. Use one deployment process consistently across environments. Reduce time between build and deployment by automatically promoting releases. Use the deployment strategy that works for you, like rolling, blue/green, or canary. - Reduce risk - Reduce deployment failure rate and mean time to recovery with automation built-in. Step timeouts and retries reduce manual intervention, while guided failure mode lets you keep deployments moving when needed. Our Insights feature reveals your DevOps performance and areas that need attention based on the 4 key DORA metrics. - Improve DevEx - Simple deployments empower teams and let developers focus on building new features. Create processes easily with our friendly UI and over 500 step templates, or use command lines and scripts. Runbooks automate routine and emergency operations tasks, freeing your teams for more crucial work. - Increase security - Built-in, flexible features to manage your security and compliance requirements. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to limit what users can do in Octopus. Configure ITSM approvals and OpenID Connect with popular providers for secure, compliant deployments. Handle complex software delivery at any scale with Octopus Deploy.

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Octopus works with your build server to enable reliable, secure, automated releases of ASP.NET applications and Windows Services into test, staging and production environments, whether they are in the cloud or on-premises.


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Octopus Deploy

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Octopus Deploy is a deployment automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of deploying applications across various environments. It provides features such as release management, deployment orchestration, and infrastructure management, enabling teams to implement continuous delivery and DevOps practices effectively. Octopus Deploy supports a wide range of platforms and integrates seamlessly with popular CI/CD tools, allowing for efficient management of complex deployment scenarios. For more information, visit their website at [octopus.com](https://octopus.com).

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Comprehensive product - recent changes to commercial model a concern"
Have been using it successfully for over 10 years, mostly on-premise and more recently in the Cloud Good features Ability to automate runbooks an...
Rupak R.
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Rupak R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Awesome deployment management tool with release and build"
Octopus Deploy is the optimal option for managing application deployment by using builds and releases. It's an easy solution to achieve this with a...
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Verified User
5.0 out of 5
"Simply the best release and software delivery tool out there"
Octopus is simply the best deployment software tool out there. It covers all deployment scenarios from traditional packages deployed to Windows hos...

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1 month

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10 months

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Octopus Deploy Demo - Promote releases between environments
For each release, you'll build your binaries once, but deploy and promote them many times, ensuring that what goes to production is exactly what you just tested. The way we model your deployment process ensures that deployments are as consistent as possible between environments, so that when you'...
Octopus Deploy Demo - Repeatable & reliable deployments
For each release, you'll build your binaries once, but deploy and promote them many times, ensuring that what goes to production is exactly what you just tested. The way we model your deployment process ensures that deployments are as consistent as possible between environments, so that when you'...
Octopus Deploy Demo - Intuitive, easy to use dashboard
Tired of being asked what version of the app is in test today, or not sure if last night's staging deployment was successful? Octopus radiates information, telling your team at a glance what's deployed where.
Octopus Deploy Demo - Complex deployments made easy
High level deployment steps for .NET, Java and other platforms, the ability to run custom scripts, management of sensitive variables, and advanced deployment patterns means Octopus can simplify even the most complicated application deployments.
Octopus Deploy Demo - Easy to install and get started
No consultants needed. Download Octopus today and within minutes you'll be set up, and within an hour you'll have automated a successful deployment. Octopus is intuitive to use and comes with a ton of useful documentation and training videos if you get stuck.
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Verified User in Computer Software
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

Have been using it successfully for over 10 years, mostly on-premise and more recently in the Cloud

Good features

Ability to automate runbooks and deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

When you need to rely on it, sometimes runbooks don't run and just hang. We are asked to reboot the agent weekly by Support and the underlyinhg issue has not been addressed

Deployments are sometimes slower that I would like, although this seems to be improving recently

The recent changes to pay in advance rather than arrears are my main complaint because this causes friction. I would rather consume the software and then get billed from what we use, rather than have to engage with sales to by more licenses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deployments are generally hands-free

It very rarely fails Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tony Kelly of Octopus Deploy

Hey - it's Tony from Octopus. I'm sorry to hear you experienced this issue while migrating from paying monthly to annually and had a disruption to your service.

Our team would like to rectify this issue for you to see how we can keep you as a loyal customer for years to come.

Please contact sales@octopus.com and reference this G2 post to help us co-ordinate our efforts.

Best,

Tony

Rupak R.
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Technical Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
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Rating Updated ()
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

Octopus Deploy is the optimal option for managing application deployment by using builds and releases. It's an easy solution to achieve this with a very simple UI. It has a good feature for creating releases easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

I've found nothing to dislike about this platform. Yet, it is a little complex for new beginners. Moreover, Octopus includes well-designed documentation for use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides Build Automation feature that eliminates the need to manually manage builds, as they are initiated automatically whenever code changes are pushed to deployment services. Also, it resolved the issue of manually controlling the setup of Build and releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

Octopus is simply the best deployment software tool out there. It covers all deployment scenarios from traditional packages deployed to Windows hosts, through Containerisation to state-of-the-art serverless deployments of application and IAC in the cloud.

Its learning curve is simple with simple set up, a great UI and easy getting started guides. Its recent shift to Config As Code has allowed it to keep pace with the best DevOps tooling platforms, all while maintaining its simplicity and ease-of-use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

The deployment target nature of setting up agents on every physical machine can be a little challenging. Some of the configuration in Terraform such as Tenants can be a little time consuming and clunky. Some aspects, such as Secrets management are not yet fully Config-As-Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are transitioning from on-premises hosted applications to the public cloud. We have many tech stacks at differentl levels of maturity. Octopus Deploy is the one tool in our chain that can deploy to all of our use-cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shreya B.
SB
Cloud Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

Octopus Deploy facilitates an automated runbook for application operations & automated deployments for managing our release cycles in our organization. It combines all activities related to automation under one roof so that we get the convenience to handle our infrastructure deliverables in cloud platforms. It promotes reusability of various parameters and data models such as environment definitions, configuration variables, external API keys, user permissions, and automation logic in its unified deployment platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

Octopus Deploy makes it easy to carry on continuous delivery and release management maintaining code version management and consistency across our environments. We can simply get the overview of our approval status, release notes and status updates in its Dashboard. This effectively helps in understanding the deployment progress and automating complicated workflows at ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We utilize the Step Template feature from Libraries offered by Octopus Deploy for deploying our Reclience application in the AWS platform. It includes enhanced deployment patterns such as blue/green deployment & multi-tenancy which optimizes resource utilization and cost reduction metrics. We configure our AWS Lambda to fetch HTTP requests from API Gateway and carry out our automated deployments in AWS Dev, QA & Prod environments. We can also upload our script file inside a package to organize our dependencies with the help of its script source definition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mukesh C.
MC
Student
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

Our client migrated from existing deployment tool to octopus and I must say the tool has a great UI and is very easy to use. The ability to select release packages to deploy by just selecting from list of drop down is makes life really easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

There are some areas that can be improved. Example:- Compared to previous tool that we used, octopus has somewhat restrictive display of past deployments that happened on a stream. There could have been a separate area where they could have displayed all the past deployments before stream refresh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:

I would recommend that people should use this tool once and look for themselves if it suits their requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used the tool in deploying the solutions on test and production environment. The tool is used by restores, developers, support and architects within the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RA
Quality analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

easy to create new release and understand the errors if build fails during configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

i get site not safe page some times , as if its a spam website and have to click on proceed, am not sure if its my browser problem, but i do get it when using VPN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

easy build deployment for any environment after development till prod rlease Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhaumik P.
BP
Product Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

Very robust integrations with popular tech stacks makes it easy for devops team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

Still there is a long way for them to match Azure devops Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Devops automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RS
data analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

The UI is awsome compared to Jenkins and gitlab , user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

Nothing as such i don't like, I love it in most of the cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy deployment and also easy log maintenance and integrations for deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LF
Database Administrator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

I use it to create automated tasks (RunBook), to provision, manage multiple cloud databases. And it perfectly meets the demand, facilitating and making my activities very safe. Allows you to create automated tasks for Windows (PowerShell) and Linux (Shell Script) systems. Versioning scripts. Separate by projects. Use and Share Scripts with a Community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

Nothing to point out at the moment. The tool has met all expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provision and Configure environments, Automate Database Backup, Automate Database Backup Recovery, Automate change from Production to DR and vice versa. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Conor B.
CB
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
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What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?

Ability to use a consistent and powerful UI across multiple different types of deployment environment including Windows & Linux servers in-house and in the cloud, S3, CloudFront, Kubernetes, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?

Lack of version control for deployment process changes, but it's coming, and I'm looking forward to it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving multiple teams the ability to manage their own deployments to multiple environments (including to Production) multiple times a day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.