IT admins know that the best compliment they can get is when employees say that they didn't even notice the rollout of an update or installation of a new piece of software for the company. That's what makes PDQ Deploy's (and some of its alternatives') support for remote installation so important.
For more personal batch app deployment, PDQ Deploy isn't what you want, but plenty of its alternatives are. Also, as PDQ Deploy is exclusive to Windows, you might be interested in alternatives that are available on Linux.
App Grid is a new lightweight Ubuntu Software Center alternative that tries to make application discovery easier by using a grid view which includes app screenshots and ratings. Discover the best of Open Source in the Ubuntu archives. Complete with ratings, reviews & screenshots.
Octopus Deploy is a user-friendly release management system for professional .NET developers. 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.
PostInstallerF is a small, lightweight, useful tool that can be used to install 100+ essential softwares, Games, audio/video codecs, and third-party repositories which are not included by default in Fedora, Ubuntu and Manjaro. Initially, It was built only for Fedora distributions, but now it supports some other popular distributions such as Ubuntu and Manjaro. You need an Internet connection to download and install the packages. Keep in mind that PostInstallerF is not a Software Center.
Ubuntu Sources List Generator is a website where you can generate a sources.list file with a lot of useful repositories.
GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers businesses a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility. It was designed for continuous delivery and the concepts essential to this practice are built in at the core.
The Debgen is a tool that allows the user to create /apt/sources.list file by adding some extra repositories beyond the standards.
Oduso is a tool to quickly install apps, themes and tweaks. Just select the apps that you would like to install and paste the generated command into the terminal. Each app or theme has a little command and oduso patches the selected commands into one file.
BuildMaster is an application release automation tool, designed by the software development team, Inedo. It combines build management and ARA capabilities to manage and automate processes primarily related to continuous integration, database change scripts, and production deployments. The tool is browser-based and able to be used “out-of-the-box”. Its feature set and scope puts it in line with the DevOps movement, and is marketed as “more than a release automation tool.
Automic Release Automation automates application deployments through your environments. Designed to facilitate rapid feedback and continuous delivery in agile development while providing the security, audit trails, versioning and approvals needed in production.
Clarive is a software tool of the DevOps area called Application Release Automation (ARA) and its main function is to orchestrate the continuous delivery of the software and automate the processes of application deployment and provision of infrastructures from point to point.
Patch Manager Plus, is an all-around patching solution, offers automated patch deployment for Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints, and patching support for 300+ third-party applications. It's available both on-premises and on the cloud. Detect missing patches: Scan endpoints to detect missing patches. Test & approve: Test patches before deployment to mitigate security risks. Download missing patches: Download patches on a centralized server before deployment.
RapidDeploy delivers enterprise-class Application Release Automation, enabling promotion of applications in heterogeneous environments. RapidDeploy automates your application deployments so releases can occur in a repeatable, standard and efficient way.
Is your release cycle too slow? Is your process manual and error-prone? Do you use tools that require hand scripting to get deployments to happen? XL Deploy automates your application deployments so releases can occur in a repeatable, standard and efficient way. The end result? Higher quality software delivered faster – at scale.
Automated Builds, Tests, and Code Coverage, Automated Deployments and Release Management. .
ElectricFlow gives Dev & Ops teams the shared control, visibility and flexibility to accelerate build, test and deploy processes at scale. ElectricFlow boosts productivity, lowers costs, eliminates risks of failed releases, and decreases time it takes to deliver new capabilities to customers.
VMware vRealize Code Stream provides release automation and continuous delivery to enable frequent, reliable software releases while reducing operational risks. Model and automate the software delivery pipeline across development, test and production. Connect the diverse set of tools for continuous integration, test, provisioning etc. and provide high visibility and control across the software development lifecycle.
