How to Automate Deployment Using Octopus Deploy & VSTS

This is a deeper dive on how to practically and technically implement automated deployment best practices, as a follow up to the DevOps & Deployment Automation Best Practices DevOps Dimension episode. Damian Brady demonstrates how to integrate Octopus in VSTS to deploy your built application across your environments.

Find a topic:

• [00:36] How does Octopus Deploy & VSTS work together?
• [01:31] Demo - How to add Octopus Deploy Build & Release Task extension?
• [03:49] Demo - How to package your built application?
• [08:42] Demo - How to create consistency across environments in Octopus?
• [15:45] Demo - Why roll forward, instead of rolling back?
• [20:56] Demo - How to use Octopus Deploy with Release Management?
• [22:50] How to get started?

Additional resources:

• Get an overview of DevOps & Deployment Automation Best Practices
• Try Octopus to automate your deployment
• Search the Octopus Deploy Library for community contributed scripts
• Get started with DevOps Fundamentals
• Learn more about DevOps with DevOps Dimensions
• Watch the .NET Deployment Strategies: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (NDC London)

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