Octopus Wins 2025 DevOps Dozen Award for Best Application of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform

BRISBANE, Australia, January 16, 2026 – Octopus Deploy (Octopus), the industry standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), today announced that its Octopus AI Assistant won the 2025 DevOps Dozen Award for Best Application of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform.

This award category looked at how generative AI (GenAI) is transforming DevOps by automating tasks, improving code quality, and enhancing efficiency. GenAI uses AI models to generate code, automate deployments, and streamline workflows, ultimately leading to faster development cycles and more robust software. The award honored the best use of generative AI in a DevOps tool or platform.

The Octopus AI Assistant, which won the award, puts a DevOps expert in the seat next to you, helping you scale securely, save time and money, and reduce risk. It answers questions, bootstraps new projects, speeds up troubleshooting, and helps optimize Octopus. This helps teams deploy faster, reduce errors, and decrease support costs. 

“Octopus is putting generative AI to work in DevOps. The Octopus AI Assistant helps DevOps and platform engineering teams scale securely, deploy faster, and fix smarter,” said Alan Shimel, one of this year’s judges and founder and CEO of Techstrong Group.

Learn more about the Octopus AI Assistant: https://octopus.com/use-case/ai-assistant. 

The Octopus AI Assistant helps platform and DevOps teams in 4 main ways:

• Fast, targeted problem solving with the deployment failure analyzer.
• Tailored support with custom prompts that reduce the support burden by providing context-aware, automated tier-0 support. 
• Reduced friction for existing teams with the best practices adviser that gives customers recommendations based on their deployment logs and Octopus’s strong opinions about best practices. 
• Faster onboarding with prompt-based project creation that lets new users get started quickly with a fully functioning project created in minutes, not hours.

"We’re thrilled to be recognized in the 2025 DevOps Dozen Awards for Best Application of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform," said Colin Bowern, Chief Product Officer at Octopus Deploy. “Our mission is to make deployment a happy time, where engineers are happier, your end users are happier, retention is higher, and the promises of Agile are realized. The AI Assistant is one way we’re helping our customers achieve that. It automates and scales best practices, so every team becomes a high-performing team.”

Octopus also offers an MCP server that provides capabilities similar to the Octopus AI Assistant but with further benefits. This includes that customers can use it with their AI client and model of choice. It can also work alongside other MCP servers to accomplish more complex orchestrations across Octopus and other essential software services. 

Octopus also recently released the Octopus Recovery Agent. The Recovery Agent is an AI-powered feature in Octopus that helps DevOps and application engineers diagnose the root cause of deployment failures with a single click. It provides intelligent steps to speed up recovery, shortcut recovery logistics, and get back up and running quickly.

Get started with Octopus Deploy for free: https://octopus.com/free-signup. 

About the DevOps Dozen Awards
The DevOps Dozen Awards recognize individuals, teams, technologies, and community efforts that move DevOps forward in meaningful ways. Not through hype. Through impact.

The DevOps Dozen 2025 winners reflect where DevOps is today and where it’s headed. AI is reshaping how teams think about velocity, reliability, and responsibility. Platform Engineering has matured. Security and supply chain integrity are no longer optional. And the community continues to lead, educate, and challenge the status quo. This year’s honorees earned their place by showing what real progress looks like.