Ask HN: Is there any interest of Octopus Deploy alternative?

Posted by digitalni on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @08:14AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A while ago I learned that Octopus Deploy is no longer available for free and, given the fact that open source community contributed significantly (community step templates, various OSS libraries etc), I felt the need to do something about it. So, I set off on a task to create a much simpler alternative, vowing to, if it ever hits the market, always provide a free community edition. By simple, I really mean simple: targeting Windows servers only.

I call it fDeploy (I even bought the .com domain), and I built the tool originally only for my own use (there is some fancy tech like protobuf, nuget API wrapper etc.).

Current unstable version screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/Ju74ThX.png

My question to you: would you use such a tool if it was made available for free?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any interest of Octopus Deploy alternative? by mathfailure on Sunday July 28, 2019 @06:12PM (#20550103)

We would. And lots of other companies would.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any interest of Octopus Deploy alternative? by digitalni on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:43AM (#20613676)

Thank you. I missed your comment, but seeing that there is at least one person interested, inspires me to keep working on it. Thanks again!

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