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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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