Overview
Octopus Deploy is a deployment automation and release management product that sits after the CI server: it takes packages built by GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines or another CI tool and promotes them through environments such as development, test and production. It handles variables per environment, approvals, runbooks, multi-tenant deployments for software vendors that deploy separate instances per customer, and deployment to Windows servers, Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Octopus is sold as Octopus Cloud and as Octopus Server, which the customer installs on its own infrastructure.[16] Pricing is based on the number of projects rather than users or minutes: a Free tier covers 10 projects with all core features, the Professional tier starts with 20 projects and the Enterprise tier with 100 projects, and Enterprise can also be bought through Azure Marketplace.[16] The product is strong where organisations have many environments or customer-specific deployments, which CI tools model poorly. It adds a second tool to the toolchain, and its value is lower for teams that deploy a single service to one Kubernetes cluster.
What Octopus Deploy does
- Environment promotion and approvals
- Multi-tenant deployments
- Runbook automation
- Integrations with major CI servers
- Cloud and self-hosted Server editions
- Project-based pricing
- Release and deployment orchestration
- Unlimited users on paid plans
Octopus Deploy pricing
Octopus Cloud: Free US$0 per year (10 projects); Professional from US$4,330 per year (20 projects); Enterprise from US$24,600 per year (100 projects). Octopus Server: Free US$0 (10 projects); Professional from US$2,080 per year (20 projects); Enterprise quoted.
Octopus Deploy strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Mature release and environment management
- Multi-tenant deployment support
- Free tier for 10 projects
- Works with any CI server
- Specialised in complex deployments
- Multi-tenancy support
Limitations
- Separate tool from CI
- Project-based pricing rises with project count
- Less value for simple Kubernetes deployments
- Enterprise Cloud tier is costly
- Annual billing only
- Add-ons for tenants and machines
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