Octopus Deploy and how to stop deploying like an idiot

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Octopus Deploy
and how to stop deploying
like an idiot

Meet Frank

Frank does
deployments

Wow.
Such Document.

Frank’s Checklist

Frank is good

Not Frank’s fault

Ugh. Brian.

Good old Frank

Frank’s an idiot.

It’s just a script

Frank is not
automated

Meet Octopus
Deploy

Octopus is Frank’s
replacement

… do you know
PowerShell?

What is Octopus?
Key concepts
How does it work?
Getting started
Where do I sign!?
Agenda

MVP in VS ALM, MSTS, MCSD, MBA, OMGWTFBBQ
SSW Solution Architect and QLD State
Manager
Co-author of Professional TFS 2013
I love:
• TFS
• Scrum
• ASP.NET MVC
• HTML5/CSS/JS
Damian Brady

Introduction to
Octopus

 Repeatable
 Automated
 Deployment Tool
 For Windows and Azure
 Accessible by browser, a REST API, or command
line
What is Octopus?

 Build Tool
 For Linux/OSX/mobile/tablet/walkman/whatever
 An 8-tentacled sea creature
A “quintopus”
What isn’t Octopus

How does it work?

Packaging
Versioning
Feeds
Under the covers

Head (Octopus Server)
Tentacles (Services on clients)
PKI and X.509 to secure communication (SQUID)
Process steps are run on the tentacles
Parts of an Octopus

Octopus Server
Web Server App Server Database Server

Key Concepts

Project
Environment
Role
Process
Steps
Variables
Library
Concepts

Project = a thing you’re deploying

Environment = a collection of servers

Role = a defined purpose for a server

Process = the steps required for deployment

Same process for every environment*
Everything is built on PowerShell
Clever processes are possible
Facts.

Getting Started

1. Install Octopus Server
2. Install Tentacles
3. Configure Octopus (Environments, Projects, Steps)
4. Add OctoPack to your project
5. Add to your Build Process
Getting Started

http://www.octopusdeploy.com/downloads
Octopus Server
Octopus Tentacles
Introduce them
Install Octopus

Set up a Nuget Feed
Create an Environment
Add machines and give them roles
Create a Project
Add process steps
Configuration

A Nuget package that makes Nuget packages
Those packages represent a version of your software
Add OctoPack

TeamCity? – install the plugin
TFS? – use the build template
Something else? – there’s a solution:
http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/API+and+Integration
Add to your build
msbuild MySolution.sln /t:Build /p:RunOctoPack=true

Build and
create a
nuget
package
Publish the
package to a
feed
Trigger an
Octopus
release

Set up CI into a dev/test environment
Run tests as part of your process
Promote automatically to a point
Manually promote for production
Use http://library.octopusdeploy.com
Massive enterprise with layers of bureaucracy and TFS?
Look at Release Manager for Visual Studio
Advice

Where do I sign!?

5 projects, 10 users, 5 tentacles = FREE
Pricing

http://docs.octopusdeploy.com
http://www.octopusdeploy.com/support
http://www.octopusdeploy.com/partners
http://octopusdeploy.uservoice.com
Need help?

Linux deployments
Passing variables between steps
More flexible per-environment steps
Parallel steps
Better rollback support
Coming soon…

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