Other tools
In addition to Azure DevOps and App Center, there are other tools that can be used for deploying and releasing software. GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins, which were discussed in the previous chapter for executing builds, can also be used for releases. Besides those, Octopus Deploy is also a commonly used tool that integrates well with Azure DevOps.
Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy is a deployment automation tool that is based on the concept of running a series of tasks on one or more target machines.
Octopus reaches these machines through a tentacle (an agent) that is installed on these machines. In Octopus Deploy, it is possible to define applications and environments and assign one or more machines to each of those. To do deployments, execution steps can be defined in a graphical editor, comparable to the visual release editor of Azure DevOps.
One of the main differences is that these steps are not defined per environment, only once per pipeline. Next, it is possible...