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Exploring Octopus Deploy: A journey to simplify deployments and operations tasks with powerful automation
By Steve Fenton
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Exploring Octopus Deploy: A journey to simplify deployments and operations tasks with powerful automation
By Steve Fenton
Welcome to Octopus! This book is for the explorers. The automators. The improvers. It's for all the software, platform, operations, and site-reliability engineers. It doesn't matter whether you just downloaded your first Octopus Deploy trial or you're an old friend. This book explains the concepts and features of Octopus Deploy that help you make your complex deployments and runbooks a breeze.
You'll learn:
- How automation brings more than just speed
- What excellent deployments look like
- What makes operations runbooks great
- About Octopus Deploy features, concepts, and terms
- How you can use Octopus to level up deployments and runbooks
The second edition is a complete rewrite of Exploring Octopus Deploy. It has been updated with all the features that have been added or updated since the first edition. Find out how to get the most from Octopus by using it for deployments, operations tasks, and self-service actions for your teams.
Publication date: June 10, 2024
Meet the author: Steve Fenton
Steve Fenton is an Octonaut at Octopus Deploy and six-time Microsoft MVP for developer technologies. He’s a Software Punk, an author, a programming architect, a pragmatist/abstractionist, and a generalising-generalist. He has written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring.
His current day job is writing. His previous day jobs have spanned the worlds of Product Management, Data and Analytics, Support, and Software Development, typically in leadership roles.