1. Getting started with Octopus Deployment
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2. Why Deploy? Repeatable, automated deployment To target server(s)
Across server farms.
To the cloud
Azure / Amazon AWS
Why Deploy?
Ask: How many of you have ever deployed to live from your development machine?
How many of you have ever had a deployment go wrong because of manual steps?
How many of you think your automated deployment process is perfect? ;)

3. Why Deploy? Release control Deploy the binaries, not a new build.
Traceability / versioning
Test / approval cycles
Configuration
Why Deploy?

4. The Deployment Cycle BVT Dev Int Test UAT Live CI
(That one extra slide)

5. Why Octopus? Release Control System
Deploy the binaries, not a new build.
Traceability / versioning
Test / approval cycles
Configuration Transforms ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Why Octopus?

6. What is Octopus? NuGet / Powershell based
Integrates with CI (TFS / TeamCity etc)
Works with Windows Azure
FREE (for one project)
$349 – for 3 projects
$799 – for unlimited projects
What is Octopus?

7. How does it work? Your Software Test Server NuGet Server Octopus
Configuration
Transforms
Your
Software
Test
Server
NuGet
Server
Octopus
Server
UAT
Servers
Live
Servers
How does it work?

8. Packaging Websites Octopack Packages website within a NuGet package.
/p:RunOctoPack = true
Enables upload-on-build
/p:OctoPackPublishPackageToFileShare = …
/p:OctoPackPublishPackageToHttp = …
/p OctoPackPublishApiKey = …
Packaging Websites

9. Deploying a web site to a test server (IIS)
Demo

10. Deploying to Azure Azure Deployment Step /t:Publish
Creates a cspkg file
Deploying to Azure

11. Deploying to Azure Azure Deployment Package No tooling currently…
but… NuGet.PackageNPublish works!*
* With tweaks.
Deploying to Azure

12. Deploying to Azure
Demo

13. Summary Octopus Deploy
Provides repeatable, automated deployment of websites (or other apps).
NuGet / Powershell Based
Deploys to Azure
“Does what is says on the tin”
Summary

14. Questions ?

15. Getting started with Octopus Deployment
Joel Hammond-Turner E: