• GUI: uses Adobe Flash which is a bit of a pain (Soon to be replaced by a new GUI with HTML5 and AngularJS).
• Visualisation of the whole deployment ecosystem and especially of more than average complex pipelines and environments is not possible (yet).

The tool needs to improve on cloud-native GitOps.

The solution currently has a bug that causes performance issues. They need to resolve this in a future release.

Technical support needs to be improved.

They lost key professionals after Digital.ai acquisition 

The GUI deserves some improvements. Adding new dictionary values may be laborious but hopefully, the frequency of this action is low.

The Flash user interface which has some bugs (I heard an HTML 5 version is in progress).

Some deployables have to be built, it is not quite difficult but not every product is supported by one standard. It is open source, so it is easy to build your own portals.

- Make the product an open box, i.e. as a user I must be able to see exactly which commands the system sends to the server so that I could reproduce them myself on the server.

- Be able to perform a reinstall of a package (notably if the server has a hardware failure and needs to be replaced). This seems to have been fixed in later versions.

- Use platform native packaging format instead of a native one

- The basic design is broken, as it computes diffs to perform updates. This works well for SQL but this is the only area where it works well. Any other install program has phases where it lets you do the thing you want and it simply execute these phases.

- Inconsistencies in the UI. For example adding a user is only possible through the CLI, not the UI.

- The fact that the system relies a lot on plugins, and that plugin backward compatibility is not ensured at all. So actually users may have to redesign all the DARs on each version upgrade (for example from 3.8.x to 3.9.x) which is just catastrophic.

Though the product is very good, I think the product can still be improved in a couple of ways. For example, there are new platforms that keep being developed. I think the developers of the product can speed up to support the new platforms as they are released. Having said that, they already have a plugin framework and the guidance provided on that ensures that we can build the plugins for new platforms.

We experienced a scenario where we had to use a certain platform for which XebiaLabs didn't have a plugin for specifically. But the plugin framework they provide actually guides us through a process so we can build the plugin and apply it easily. Because of this, my team could actually build a plugin for that platform without much difficulty. 

From that perspective, the product is extensible and that makes it easier. From an enterprise perspective, which rampant change and innovation inspiring our developers to explore new platforms based on business needs, it is very helpful that XLDeploy can be extended to support the new needs.

I think you find would find it to be the best of all the similar type of products that you've seen out there. 

XebiaLabs made some custom plugins for us. So, there are some issues with these plugins.

RollBack, Logging, documentations, support, forums, and blogs.

Documentation / initial setup / learning curve.

I’d like better reporting possibilities.