UrbanCode Deploy Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 28, 2016

It has flexible deployment options, allowing us to model our components as we want and need. More plugins are required.

What is most valuable?

It has flexible deployment options, allowing us to model our components as we want and need, which is the most valuable feature we've found from our experience with it.

How has it helped my organization?

It reduced more than 70% of our manual effort when it automated deployment of both UNIX and Windows-based applications using UrbanCode Deploy. We used plugins available in the plugin center and used UNIX shell and powershell scripts to automate completely.

What needs improvement?

More plugins are required. There are also many bugs in UrbanCode Deploy. Finally, database deployment and rollback of databases needs to be worked on.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for one year two months.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

It does not support variable changes and utilizations while executing the application. We were setting the variable values in the application process and using it in the same process, but apparently that's not supported.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There have been no issues with the stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have had no issues scaling it.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is very good.

How was the initial setup?

Refer to the IBM Learning Center as that will help with the setup

What about the implementation team?

We used a vendor team for our implementation.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Rundeck is also a good option, but UrbanCode Deploy provides more features and is easier to use.

What other advice do I have?

Before buying this, try the trial version and check if it serves your purpose.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We're partners.

Eric MinickWorks at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

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Jun 15, 2016

Thanks for the feedback. Would love to know what plugins you are looking for. And for dynamically setting values during a process, look at capturing dynamic values as the output properties of one step and referring to them from another. That's a "chalk board" you can write to in flight. The app properties are not because each deployment uses a traceable version of the props for audit / repeatability purposes. When the process updates those properties it is creating a new, different version of the props. So I'm guessing you can get the dynamism you're looking for with a different approach.

Eminick@us.ibm.com

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Professional Services Leader at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Oct 25, 2020

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Automates application deployment through your environments

Pros and Cons

"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."

"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."

What is our primary use case?

We use UrbanCode Deploy for deploying containers and Kubernetes.

Within our organization, there are roughly 20 people using this solution.

What is most valuable?

It helps us orchestrate enterprise applications that need to be coordinated.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see more reporting for container architecture.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

If you really want to scale up, it's going to get a little complicated. You'll have to do some configurations to make it work. High scalability is a little complex with UrbanCode Deploy.

Overall, the scalability is good, but it's complex.

How are customer service and technical support?

IBM recently sold the solution to HQL. Today, communication is not as fast as it was with IBM.

Currently, the support right now is HQL, but through the IBM systems.

How was the initial setup?

Deployment times vary. It took us between five to six hours.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Considering COVID-19, the price is too high.

What other advice do I have?

If you are deploying independent components that are not involved in an enterprise scenario, then maybe this solution could work; however, if you have a complex scenario with multiple components and multiple complications, then it's better to choose a more powerful solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises