Play by Play: Modernizing Your Deployment Strategy with Octopus Deploy

Course Overview
Welcome to this Play by Play with Pluralsight. A Play by Play is a series where we sit down with an expert to talk about an aspect of technology in realtime, unscripted, and unrehearsed. I'm Damian Brady from Octopus Deploy, and in this Play by Play, I sit down with security expert Troy Hunt to talk deployment strategies. Deploying your software is such an important part of a development cycle, but it's often only considered towards the end of a project. It also frequently involves manual processes that are prone to error and inefficiencies. In this Play by Play, Troy and I discuss the state of software deployment at many organizations, and where traditional deployment strategies fall down. We focus on difficulties with database deployment, managing multiple different environments, and of course the dangers of manual deployments. We'll do a tour of Octopus Deploy, highlighting its capabilities for automation, lifecycles for safely deploying all the way thorough to production, managing environments and approvals, and how it handles environment-specific configuration. We'll also walk through a complete continuous deployment scenario using Visual Studio Team Services with the Octopus build and release extension, and of course Octopus Deploy itself. Finally, we look at security, audit trails, role-based permissions, and secure communications in Octopus. And we talk about deploying to Azure and also running Octopus from Azure with the Marketplace offering. We have a lot of fun in this course, so join us to learn about improving your deployment strategies with Octopus Deploy.