# Octopus Deploy Reviews **Vendor:** Octopus Deploy **Category:** [Continuous Delivery Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-delivery-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 58 ## About 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. ## Octopus Deploy Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of deployment** with Octopus Deploy, enjoying reliable and repeatable orchestration for over a decade. (5 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Octopus Deploy, highlighting its intuitive interface and straightforward setup process. (5 reviews) - Users value the **deployment automation** capabilities of Octopus Deploy, enhancing reliability and ease of use in software releases. (4 reviews) - Users highlight the **deployment efficiency** of Octopus Deploy, appreciating its ability to streamline and simplify complex workflows. (4 reviews) - Users love the **easy deployment** with Octopus Deploy, streamlining workflows and enhancing consistency across environments. (4 reviews) - Users value the **powerful automation features** of Octopus Deploy, enhancing consistency and efficiency in their deployment processes. (3 reviews) - Users value the **automation efficiency** of Octopus Deploy, which streamlines complex deployments and reduces errors significantly. (3 reviews) - Deployment Ease (3 reviews) - User Interface (3 reviews) - Users value the **versatility** of Octopus Deploy for managing complex deployments effortlessly across multiple platforms. (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users express concern over the **high costs** associated with Octopus Deploy's new pricing model and licensing structure. (5 reviews) - Users express concerns about **costly pricing changes** and the shift from free licenses for not-for-profits. (4 reviews) - Users report **delay issues** affecting dependability and efficiency in Octopus Deploy, causing frustration during critical deployments. (2 reviews) - Users experience **downtime issues** with Octopus Deploy, leading to frustrations when relying on its runbooks. (2 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , as setting up pipelines can overwhelm new users due to complexity. (2 reviews) - Users experience **slow deployment** times, leading to frustration and delays during critical updates and processes. (2 reviews) - Complex Interface (1 reviews) - Complexity (1 reviews) - Complex Setup (1 reviews) - Confusing Interface (1 reviews) ## Octopus Deploy Reviews ### 1. Automates Deployments Flawlessly, Steep Learning Curve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil R. | Senior Consultant - DevOps, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** I use Octopus Deploy to automate application deployments across multiple environments. It makes releases consistent, repeatable, and easy to manage. The ability to handle complex deployment workflows and integrate with CI tools has saved me a lot of time and reduced errors. I really like how Octopus Deploy simplifies complex deployments. The standout feature for me is the ability to create re-usable deployment processes and manage multiple environments effortlessly. Its integration with CI/CD tools and the intuitive dashboard make tracking releases and approvals very easy. Reusable deployment processes save me a lot of time because I don't have to recreate steps for every new project or environment. Once I define a process, I can apply it across multiple applications, ensuring consistency and reducing errors. Managing multiple environments is equally valuable. It lets me promote releases from dev to staging to production with confidence, using the same tested workflow. This makes deployments predictable and eliminates the risk of missing steps during critical releases. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** One area that could be improved is the learning curve. Setting up complex deployment pipelines can feel overwhelming for new users. The UI, while powerful, sometimes feels cluttered when managing large projects. Also, better built-in reporting and analytics would make tracking deployment metrics easier. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Octopus Deploy to automate deployments, saving time by making releases consistent and reducing errors. It handles complex workflows, eliminates manual steps, and helps with versioning and rollback. This makes deployments predictable and effortlessly manageable across multiple environments. ### 2. Intuitive UI and Seamless Task Management with Excellent Documentation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravikiran Reddy C. | Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2025 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Great UI and seamless tasks at your fingertips for all your needs. In addition, great documentation to understand and configure the the avaytasks **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** ssh integration, AI integration capabilities. With recent restructure of pricing models, Now octopus deploy charging based on no of deployment target licenses which turns out to be costly. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pre defined template, enterprises support, better User Interface. No need to worry about hassle of complex configuration as with the inbuilt tasks it will be done in matter of minutes hours. ### 3. Octopus is a well thought out and comprehensive deployment orchestration tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** I have been using Octopus for over 10 years and it has always been super easy to install, maintain and use. It is a comprehensive tool for deployment orchestration which makes your software deployments reliable and repeatable. It has a rich feature set, yet it has been so well designed that it is rarely confusing to set up deployment pipelines. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Octopus used to provide not for profit organisations with a free licence. However that is no longer the case. This is a fairly common trend at the moment, where after lock in for years, a company starts charging making it difficult to do anything else but pay. I understand this economy means businesses need more and more revenue, though I'm not a fan of the way it is dealt with, particularly for not-for-profit organisations. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Octopus makes our software deployments reliable and repeatable, also taking the burden off team members though automation. ### 4. Seamless Deployments That Follow Best Practices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Helen C. | Frontline Support & ITSM Practice Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2026 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** It’s a seamless way to deploy, and it follows best practices for deployment management. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** I don’t dislike anything about it. It works exactly as it says on the tin. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Octopus Deploy allows us to manage CI/CD with ease and deploy software safely, in line with best practices. ### 5. Intuitive Interface and Powerful Automation, But Room for Improvement **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Octopus Deploy stands out to me for its intuitive interface, powerful automation features, and its ability to handle complex, multi-platform environments with ease. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** The high costs, along with the possibility of delays and downtime, are concerns for me. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** This platform addresses the challenges of complex and error-prone software deployments by offering a unified, automated solution for managing releases across multiple environments. As a result, teams experience fewer human errors, benefit from quicker release cycles, and enjoy greater reliability thanks to automated rollbacks. Additionally, it enhances visibility and transparency throughout the deployment process. ### 6. Simplifies Complex Deployments with Self-Hosted Octopus Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin S. | Sales and marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2025 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** self-hosted Octopus Cloud and also simplifies complex deployments. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Some advanced features require high level knowledge and skills plans making it expensive for small teams. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It removes manual steps, reduces deployment errors, and makes releases more predictable. and also help the basic and beginner to work on this ### 7. Comprehensive product - recent changes to commercial model a concern **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2024 **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 **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 **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployments are generally hands-free It very rarely fails **Official Response from Tony Kelly:** > 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 ### 8. Awesome deployment management tool with release and build **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rupak R. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 9. Simply the best release and software delivery tool out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 10. Configuring AWS Lambda & API Gateway Integration for our Reclience App using Octopus Deploy Platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya B. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **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. **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. **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. ### 11. Good deployment tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mukesh C. | Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2022 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 12. Best build deployment app ever for on prem application. have tried **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** roopesh a. | Quality analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** easy to create new release and understand the errors if build fails during configuration **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 **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy build deployment for any environment after development till prod rlease ### 13. Deveoper friendly devops automation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhaumik P. | Product Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Very robust integrations with popular tech stacks makes it easy for devops team **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Still there is a long way for them to match Azure devops **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Devops automation ### 14. A very advanced and smart deployment tool for on prem projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rose s. | data analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** The UI is awsome compared to Jenkins and gitlab , user friendly **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Nothing as such i don't like, I love it in most of the cases **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy deployment and also easy log maintenance and integrations for deployments ### 15. Highly Useful Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas F. | Database Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **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. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Nothing to point out at the moment. The tool has met all expectations. **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. ### 16. Octopus is an essential tool in our DevOps arsenal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Conor B. | Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **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 **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! **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. ### 17. Highly recommended **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Not only can do I use this to push code out but also to configure the servers as well. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Deploying an IIS project can get hung up pretty frequently, which then causes all other deployments on that server to stop as well. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Removing the need for devs to have access to prod machines - Full deployment automation ### 18. Octopus Deploy - A DevOps lifesaver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Centralised platform for managing deployments especially projects that have dependencies **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Not a lot to dislike, it's very customisable if you do enough research and read up on the documentation. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having one dashboard showing all projects, environments and versions deployed to those evironments is a huge help. ### 19. Complex deployments and installations in One-Click **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Armando L. | Technical Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** The possibility to install complex solutions, even in various environments and different operating system in basically one click. In fact, after the machines and variables configuration, your deploy and installation environment will be ready with huge saved time. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Initially, hierarchy and configuration can confuse final user (or better the administator who has the job to configure it). You will also need much time to understand its logic and only later you will appreciate its power. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Take your time at the beginning, in order to understand all Octopus features **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Octopus Deploy offers the possibility of executing scripts and managing variables of different levelsin order to simplify the distribution of very complex applications on the structure level. Hence this means to have the infinite possibilities of customization. ### 20. Great product easy to implement. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh H. | Sr. Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Capability for customizing flying pipelines. You can choose which steps you want to miss just before deployment. Lifecycle characteristics are also very valuable. They help us define the environments that are obligatory. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** In reality, not much to love. Maybe only because the public edition has been removed which is shameful. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** You will know that sometimes you must regenerate snapshots and e-deploy existing packages, read the doco before you start a new project. You will know. You save much time when solving problems with this skill. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** To use our code in multiple environments, we needed a flexible and simple configuration solution. The deployment of Octopus modified it for us copmletely. Without it, I don't know how we worked. Deploy Octopus can do a lot from the bag. My favorite terraform is included. ### 21. Deployment Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** By using this we can easily done deployment of any new version of our required interfaces. It's make our task very easy. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** As such there is no issues with me and my team but few times it will become overloaded and shows wrong version details for few hours. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before that we have to deploy our new interface versions manually which is very hectic but with the help of this tool we can eaisly done deployment with in a window of few minutes to few hours. ### 22. Amazing release software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee N. | Lead Cloud Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Where this product stands out for me is with its use of variables and the ability to implement logic here rather than having to code the logic in the IaC/App. Also the amount of tasks available both natively and via the community allowed me to do everything I waned to achieve. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Nothing really. I have used Azure DevOps which is great due to it having all the tooling required for DevOps deployments, but Octopus has really mastered the release side. Working with both in combination is a great solution and the intervention between the both is fantastic. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Go for it! **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Green field DevOps project, Octopus Deploy was selected as its the leader in release software. By utilising this software we were able to configure complete end to end fully automated infrastructure and application deployment. ### 23. Octopus Deploy is a really great software tool to help automate your deployment pipelines **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Branko W. | Technical Application Manager , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Octopus is really easy to install in your infrastructure or find a cloud offer. After that you can really easily setup a deployment pipeline. If you need to deploy something specific just look through all the plugins or the community plugins to find what you need. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** I cannot come up with something i really dislike. The software is good and easy to use. The only thing I can mention is that using a proxy is not really transparent while creating deployment steps. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Take some time to learn the product, and then create beautiful roll out steps for every piece of software you have. It makes life so much easier. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying software was done by hand and took a lot of time. Furthermore it was also a root cause for many problems. Automating the whole deployment with Octopus Deploy took care of both problems. ### 24. Octopus Deploy - Manage deployment processes centrally across multiple environments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Donato B. | Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** With Octopus Deploy, you can centrally manage deployments across multiple environments located in different zones. Thanks to the simple installation of the Octopus Tentacle, it is possible to reach a server via network and deploy quickly. There is the possibility to create step templates with PowerShell to have scripts always available. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** The license may seem expensive initially. In reality, the solution is well-structured and could justify the expense. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management of automatic deployments on multiple servers. Standardization of processes, services, and deployment. ### 25. My experience with octopus deploy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca T. | DevOps Engineer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** With octopus deploy you can manage your distributed target with custom script and a lot of personalization about variables, variables set and so fort. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** I don't like the UI, and the access control list management. Is very difficult to have two octopus installation synchronized and the API is not robust, **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** For my company, with octopus I managed a lot of environments with different customization (online - offline - hybrid solution) and with octopus deploy all make simple. ### 26. Great Management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Liliana S. | Communication manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Is a great automated deployment. You can opt for a free trial and see all the features that helps team to manage releases. And automated even the most complex application deployments and operations runbox. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Great platform and management tool. Easy to use for all the employers. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Agile teams use Octopus to create a repeatable and reliable release promotion workflow, with all the permissions, approvals and auditing needed. ### 27. Great in every way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin N. | Quality Assurance Engineer, Non-Profit Organization Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** It works with every situation. There is an amazing support team which is always ready to help and has never let me down. The UI is fast, simple, and comprehensive. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** If I could point out one dislike, it would simply be the lack of a dark theme. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous Integration and Automated Deployments to Azure. All of our Environments are easy to deploy to in the same way with the same settings with a couple of mouse clicks. ### 28. excellent software to automate even the most complex deployment processes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** octopus deploy is able to distribute the software on multiple types of platforms, using simple complex deployment scripts. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** the variables, and the deployment scripts are not versioned. it would be good to do it, in our case octopus contains parishes lines of code and it is important to keep it. furthermore the variables cannot be exported in a simple way. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** not really cheap but really a great product **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** with octopus we were able to distribute the software of a complex and very varied platform in a few minutes, before octopus it took hours to get the same result ### 29. one click deploy all customer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Octopus deploy can install the build result on customers' servers, even with complex scripts. It manages the versions of the scripts and manages the variables for ogmi environment. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** The variables cannot be exported from one project to another. Scipts and step templates are versioned but it is not possible to load an old version. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use Octopus deploy to install our software on our customers' servers in a fully automated manner. ### 30. Best CI/CD tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto L. | Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Easy to automate deploy for different environment, quick and flexible. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Choosing which steps to exclude, which environments or targets to deploy to, etc., is not immediately clear. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage deploy for all customer worldwide. ### 31. Great software that facilitates the arduous task of application implementations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anaya S. | Software Application Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** What I love about this great software is how flexible it can be in terms of carrying out the arduous task of implementing large applications, since it gives the user the power to make special configurations that allow these applications to be implemented in all the platforms, offers a fabulous support also provides on its own platform videos or documentation to help the user to guide how to use such software and thus get the best performance of all the functions offered and all for very affordable prices. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** It can be a bit confusing to understand all of its configurations, but thanks to the fact that they provide guidelines for their use, it is much easier to understand them once they are visualized. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** We recommend the use of this great software because it will help your company and team to work in a much simpler and faster way with the deployment of applications on different platforms. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Octopus Deploy helps us greatly to speed up this great task of carrying out the implementations of a large number of applications, since it makes it much less heavy for our team of developers and so the time we used to do this manually was used to overtake many other business projects, that is why I consider Octopus the best solution we have found to facilitate implementations and deployments of applications on different platforms. ### 32. Great organization and technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** octopus makes it easy to control your deployment pipelines and organize transformations and other relevant information **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** It can be a bit clunky and the on premises implementation leave something to be desired. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using octopus to deploy our internal systems within our on site servers. The variable management is very useful and has helped us more efficiently set up new deployment pipelines. ### 33. Excellent software to carry out application implementations with the highest confidence **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Augustina G. | Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** This software without a doubt I like it mainly because its interface is very intuitive, it allows everything difficult to become simple from deployments of applications, implementations, tests, quality control which are tasks that can consist of a long time but when implementing this great service either in the cloud or on a server of your preference avoids all these hassles and the best thing is that it is not necessary to be a professional to handle it because even on your platform we can find videos or documentation that guides us step by step. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Being a software with multiple uses and having a lot of features can become somewhat tedious to know all its functions but it is something that can be easily solved thanks to the fact that they provide help through videos or documentation that explains everything step by step. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Octopus Deploy is ideal for implementing very fast and reliable so I recommend it for those companies that are already tired of doing all this manually. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Octopus Deploy is a software that has allowed us to modernize our software or applications development thanks to the fact that we have left behind the arduous task of performing implementations, deployments, tests, quality control manually to allow everything to be automated and without a doubt we have had a high performance in our work because with it we are sure that our implementations will work. ### 34. Octopus Deploy great application deployment software. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catherine A. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** I love this software because it allows you to implement applications on any platform, it contains a very simple and intuitive interface, so its use is extremely simple for any user, be it a professional or novice developer, it offers a very safe and automated application launch, saving a lot time to the developers the arduous task of configuring this and the best thing is that all this can be done in the cloud or in installations everything depends on the choice of each developer or company. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Its price is somewhat high, but I think it is worth investing in it, since it greatly facilitates the launch of applications. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Octopus Deploy is an ideal software or tool to accelerate the implementation process of applications so if you want to avoid doing this work manually this software is recommended. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Octopus Deploy is very useful for our company Quantitative Systems because it saves us a lot of time with respect to the task of implementing applications, since doing this manually takes a lot of time, in addition we have the confidence that everything will work out because it offers the function of making automated launches and sure, this is how the time we used to dedicate to this arduous task can now be used to make other advances in our company. ### 35. One stop Deployment tool for .net apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** It is easy to use and highly customizable to fit your needs to deploy binaries and scripts **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Some times it gets scratchy and becomes slow and have to wait some time until other queued apps are deployed **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Great ro tondeploy binaries and files **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy deployments and fast it removes dependency on multiple teams like operations ### 36. Well-designed for Complex Deployment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael J. | Lead Network Architect & SysOps, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Octopus Deploy is built to have a very powerful and flexible deployment process. Being able to set up special rules for different deployment scenarios, have adjustable configuration parameters that can change based on the target environment, and step dependencies allow for replicating complex manual deployment procedures that would otherwise not be easy to automate. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Sometimes, the software can be a bit confusing because it has so many options. Reviewing the documentation usually helps. It also feels a bit slow on the initial load, although a more powerful server may resolve this. Overall, there is little to dislike and mostly just small issues that can be worked around. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** They offer a 45 day trial of their self-hosted and cloud editions. If you're interested in the software, it's a good offer. Additionally, if you're going to go self-hosted, there is also a free "Community Edition" license that allows for five projects and ten deployment targets. That's enough for most simple deployments and small companies. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We moved from a fully manual deployment process to a single-click deployment. Additionally, with this software we now can easily use the same binaries on both testing and production environments. Our old process involved different builds for each environment. Although they were built from the same commit, we could not ensure that the exact same product was being used in production due to these different builds. We can now be fully confident that the same software that passed testing is placed on production, with the same configuration setup and layout. Deployments also go much faster now, which means less downtime for our customers. ### 37. Tentacle Fun **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe C. | Lead Database Administrator, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Massively configurable and with very good level of granularity when it comes to permissions. The seamless integration with other platforms is very welcome too. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** The UI can get very busy and unfriendly to use when the number of environments ramps up significantly (as it has done in our case). This takes away from what is an otherwise clean and fairly intuitive application. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Think about how to best maintain your compliance requirement about separate of duty and security with the way you set up tentacles - it can all be done but it can be challenging. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product is a premier tool of choice for the our deployment pipeline. As it interfaces well with the other tools we use (Team City, SVN and GIT), it made for a fairly straightforward choice. ### 38. Octopus Continuous Deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John B. | Group Product Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Application and Database deployments are done via a simple process of promoting changes thru environments via a lifecycle. Access is controlled by a variety of providers as well as having an Audit section of past deployments; this really helps with yearly audits for certification and regulation. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Since the UI upgrade there is very little to dislike about Octopus Deploy. One area that does need more work is AWS integration however the vendor is aware of this and is providing additional functionality in later releases or via the community library. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Octopus's low cost and rich feature set are a winning combination. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployments are done in an industry standard way; this is a vast improvement over bespoke deployments from a custom framework. Octopus logs all activity and deployments which helps with troubleshooting deployment issues. ### 39. Keeps our deployment pipeline lightweight, quick, and flexible **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony A. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** The simple interface for seeing multiple products, versions, and environments and managing our deploy workflow is the best part of Octopus. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** I would like to have some more integration with the rest of our pipeline. Being able to link commit refs and issue numbers would give us better visibility into what has been deployed and where. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Octopus' scripting can add more options and power to deployment pipelines **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We aim to have a light-weight and flexible deploy pipeline since we are a small startup. Octopus gives us a good deployment tool that isn't overly complicated. ### 40. Automated Deployments done right **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit S. | Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Automated deployments, migrations between environment, integration with Visual Studio (and hence Jenkins). **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** The UI is unfriendly to use when the number of environments increase. Azure integration could be a significant plus, but not really a 'dislike' per say. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated Deployments and Continuous integration. ### 41. The tentacles are reaching all the things **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2017 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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 Octopus Deploy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Don't just use octopus to deploy also get the configuration of your environment under control. Embrace CD and let things deploy when approved. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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. ### 42. Excellent tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert B. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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 Octopus Deploy?** I can't think of something that I dislike about OctopusDeploy. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** 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. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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 ### 43. Effortless deployments, automated and on demand. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** 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. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smooth, automatic and effective deploys, with no chance of human error. Quality assured deploys every time. ### 44. Great at installing different Windows drivers and services across all machines **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ross D. | Senior Business Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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 do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** For Windows deployment, Octopus Deploy is a decent choice. It is better than the Windows Server tools which we used earlier. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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. ### 45. Implementing Octopus has radically improved our speed to production **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca H. | Development Team Lead - Graduate Program (Auckland), Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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 Octopus Deploy?** Initial configuration can be time consuming and complex, especially when you're dealing with a massive, complicated infrastructure. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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. ### 46. Great for pushing releases to a lot of windows machines **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben M. | Apprentice Leader, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** 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. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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. ### 47. Octopus Deploy has one job and it does it brilliantly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Glen B. | Senior Software Developer and Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** 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. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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. ### 48. Best deployment tool for Windows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin V. | Software Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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 Octopus Deploy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** 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. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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. ### 49. I have worked with OD for about 2 years and found to be a very useful and important for company's CD **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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 Octopus Deploy?** 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. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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 :) ### 50. Makes continuous deployment not only do-able but easy and a joy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** 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 Octopus Deploy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Just do it. **What problems is Octopus Deploy 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. ## Octopus Deploy Discussions - [Is Octopus Deploy a CI tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-octopus-deploy-a-ci-tool) - 1 comment - [View Octopus Deploy pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/octopus-deploy/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-18+08%3A37%3A51+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a2785322-06e9-41bb-8c77-14a1084c01c6&secure%5Btoken%5D=bb7ea8b710801511fdbb4372f86aec3928c81f9d0b2fc9e4b732205283eb36c5&format=llm_user) ## Octopus Deploy Integrations - [AWS Auto Scaling](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-auto-scaling/reviews) - [Azure Pipelines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-pipelines/reviews) ## Octopus Deploy Features **Administration** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Dashboards **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Automation Support - Runbook Automation** - Common Tool Integration - Scripting Language Support - Routine Task Automation - Automated Task Notifications **Functionality** - Deployment Automation - Process Analytics - Plugins - APIs / Integrations - Feature Flags **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Error Management - Runbook Automation** - Runbook Procedure Updates - Recovery Options - Error Management in Automation **Processes** - Pipelines - Orchestration - Workflow Visualization **Customization - Runbook Automation** - Runbook Customization - Workflow Customization - Incident Response Customization **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Compliance and Reporting - Runbook Automation** - Security Management - Compliance Standards Adherence - Reporting and Auditing **Performance - Runbook Automation** - Self-Service for Non-IT Staff - Team Collaboration Enhancement - Load Handling Performance **Agentic AI - Runbook Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Octopus Deploy Alternatives - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,280 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (874 reviews)