We performed a comparison between Nolio Release Automation and Octopus Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Microsoft, Red Hat and others in Release Automation."The CA Application Insight feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The graphical view of when you're writing flow is the most valuable feature."
"One standout aspect is its architecture. We can configure multiple instances on a single server using different system names or usernames."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"The rollback feature has been most valuable. We can write scripts from scratch. Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"It could use better integration with development tools."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult to maneuver. They should work to make it easier."
"When I started using Nolio around eight months ago, a challenge was the lack of relevant information and related support for learning."
"In the next release, I would like to see more features to use active directory. And more rules to support more Python scripts and to work with Kubernetes and clouds, to have an easy solution for a lot of parameters."
"A concern with CA Release Automation is that Automic was acquired by CA recently. We're a bit concerned that CA strategy is going with Automic, that CA Release Automation is dead. They are not investing in it too much... They do say, that in the next two or three years we don't need to worry. They will still provide support for CA Release Automation. But we're not sure how CA Release Automation will evolve."
"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there is complexity."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
Nolio Release Automation is ranked 13th in Release Automation with 50 reviews while Octopus Deploy is ranked 7th in Release Automation with 3 reviews. Nolio Release Automation is rated 7.8, while Octopus Deploy is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nolio Release Automation writes " Enables one-touch application deployment across various environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Octopus Deploy writes "Easy to set up with intuitive UI and good reliability". Nolio Release Automation is most compared with GitLab, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Chef and UrbanCode Deploy, whereas Octopus Deploy is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, UrbanCode Deploy, GitLab and AWS CodeDeploy.
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