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Octopus Deploy vs Vagrant: What are the differences?
What is Octopus Deploy? Automated deployment for .NET. Octopus works with your build server to enable reliable, secure, automated releases of ASP.NET applications and Windows Services into test, staging and production environments, whether they are in the cloud or on-premises.
What is Vagrant? A tool for building and distributing development environments. Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Octopus Deploy belongs to "Deployment as a Service" category of the tech stack, while Vagrant can be primarily classified under "Virtual Machine Management".
Some of the features offered by Octopus Deploy are:
- Deploy on-premises or to the cloud, securely
- Built for .NET developers
- Configuration and scripting
On the other hand, Vagrant provides the following key features:
- Boxes
- Up And SSH
- Synced Folders
"Powerful" is the top reason why over 26 developers like Octopus Deploy, while over 354 developers mention "Development environments" as the leading cause for choosing Vagrant.
Vagrant is an open source tool with 18.6K GitHub stars and 3.74K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vagrant's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Vagrant has a broader approval, being mentioned in 802 company stacks & 478 developers stacks; compared to Octopus Deploy, which is listed in 47 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.
Pros of Octopus Deploy
- Powerful30
- Simplicity25
- Easy to learn20
- .Net oriented17
- Easy to manage releases and rollback14
- Allows multitenancy8
- Nice interface4
Pros of Vagrant
- Development environments352
- Simple bootstraping290
- Free237
- Boxes139
- Provisioning130
- Portable84
- Synced folders81
- Reproducible69
- Ssh51
- Very flexible44
- Works well, can be replicated easily with other devs5
- Easy-to-share, easy-to-version dev configuration5
- Great3
- Just works3
- Quick way to get running2
- DRY - "Do Not Repeat Yourself"1
- Container Friendly1
- What is vagrant?1
- Good documentation1
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Cons of Octopus Deploy
- Poor UI4
- Config & variables not versioned (e.g. in git)2
- Management of Config2
Cons of Vagrant
- Can become v complex w prod. provisioner (Salt, etc.)2
- Multiple VMs quickly eat up disk space2
- Development environment that kills your battery1
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