Scale complex deployments with a tool built for the job

Octopus or all-in-one: What’s right for me?

Octopus and all-in-one tools, like Harness, GitLab, and Azure DevOps, let you deploy your software with Continuous Delivery capabilities. You also get features like environment promotion, built-in ITSM and SIEM integrations, and DORA metrics.

To help you decide what’s right for you, let’s compare Octopus with tools like Azure DevOps, Harness, and GitLab.

Octopus lets you scale delivery safely and deploy more often, without duplicating work

Octopus is purpose-built for CD at scale while integrating seamlessly with other tools. You get the structure to scale your complex deployments from a handful of teams to hundreds, without the overhead of building and maintaining custom scripts.

Since 2012, we’ve helped more than 5,000 organizations solve their complex CD challenges. From Kubernetes, databases, and mainframes, to governance, security, and compliance, Octopus manages it all at scale, so you can deploy with confidence.

Define your deployment process once and reuse across environments

In Octopus, you use one process consistently across your environments. With automated environment promotion and no need for custom scripting, you save time and reduce errors. You can go to production confidently as your process has already worked in other environments. Easily manage environment differences with scoped variables.

Repeatable, safe deployments with release snapshots

When you create a release in Octopus, it snapshots the deployment process and its associated assets. The process, scripts, package references, and variables remain consistent each time the release gets deployed. If you make changes to these assets, it won’t affect releases you already created. This is a crucial part of repeatable deployments, and makes it easy to deploy fast and recover quickly.

Deploy anywhere with ease

Octopus supports deploying anywhere, from Kubernetes to point-of-sale systems. It also supports all hosting locations, from AWS, Azure, GCP, and data centers to edge locations. You get one tool for modern and heritage apps, so your platform team can build delivery pipelines faster, and developers can complete tasks in one place

Scale complex processes to hundreds of app teams

Create processes with our easy-to-use UI and over 500 step templates. Build out your process with as many actions as you need, then reuse across projects. Process Templates let you create reusable building blocks to harmonize CD pipelines and reduce duplication across teams and applications.

Flexibility for app teams with guardrails

With connected templates, enforceable policies, and centralized governance in Platform Hub, your platform team can define how software gets delivered, while giving developers the autonomy to move fast, safely. Your app teams can make significant changes with enforced testing, while having the freedom to push non-breaking changes and bug fixes.

Standardization from day one to day 1,000 and beyond

Over time, tools and processes change, and Octopus handles this at scale with workflows for changes of any size. Developers get to innovate rapidly while platform teams get the standardization needed to deliver safely and securely every time, especially as things change. Platform Hub's distinct workflows for updates make it easy to automatically push bug fixes to thousands of applications, while letting app teams bring in breaking changes when it suits their timeline.

Single view for deployment status across environments

With Octopus, anyone in any role can see the version, stage, environment, and health of each deployment across all your apps, on one dashboard. You get a unified view that makes it quicker and easier to deploy, find key information, and troubleshoot. This means fewer failures, less downtime, quicker recovery, and fewer people fixing issues, which in turn increases productivity.

Free your team from day-2 maintenance tasks with runbooks

With Octopus Runbooks, you can manage tasks like infrastructure provisioning, database management, and website failover and restoration with one click. You can set permissions so anyone on a team can start a runbook, freeing your ops team from time-consuming, repetitive tasks.

Deploy to multiple edge or SaaS tenants with one process

With Tenants in Octopus, you can reuse the same deployment process for all customers, instances, and edge locations, saving time and improving reliability. This also lets you onboard new customers and locations quickly and safely.

Reduce risk with enterprise compliance features

With single sign-on (SSO) and role-based access control (RBAC) as standard, you can limit what users can do in Octopus. Built-in audit logs track every significant event, so you can see who did what and when. Configure ITSM approvals and OpenID Connect with popular providers for secure, compliant deployments. Step timeouts and retries reduce manual intervention, while guided failure mode lets you keep deployments moving when needed. Deployment freezes let you control when and where deployments can happen, keeping your systems stable when it matters most.