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Kostis Kapelonis is a Principal Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy. He lives and breathes automation, good testing practices and stress-free deployments with GitOps. He is also a member of the Argo team focusing mainly on Argo Rollouts and Argo CD.

Enterprise CI/CD best practices – part 3

Kostis KapelonisNovember 12, 2020 • 12 min read
The pain of infrequent deployments, release trains and lengthy sprints

Kostis KapelonisApril 27, 2020 • 12 min read
Using Docker from Maven and Maven from Docker

Kostis KapelonisAugust 21, 2018 • 19 min read

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Optional ephemeral environments using GitHub PR labels

Ephemeral environments are great for PR reviews, but they're not always needed. In this post, I walk through how I used a simple GitHub PR label to make ephemeral environment deployments optional without breaking branch protection rules.

Matthew AllfordJune 23, 2026 • 7 min read

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GitHub Connections now available for self-hosted Octopus Server customers

GitHub Connections, via the Octopus Deploy App for GitHub, are now available for self-hosted Octopus Server customers

Michael RichardsonJune 18, 2026 • 3 min read

GitOps secrets with the CSI Secret Store driver

Securing your GitOps secrets with the Secret Store CSI driver

Learn how to use the Kubernetes secret store csi driver for your Argo CD secrets

Kostis KapelonisJune 18, 2026 • 9 min read

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