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Matt Allford is a Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy with over 15 years of experience across infrastructure, development, and operations. With a passion for education and content creation, he has authored courses at Pluralsight and presented at conferences across Australia and America, sharing his expertise in DevOps engineering, platform engineering, and cloud technologies. Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer specializing in helping customers realize value from modern deployment automation and cloud-native solutions.

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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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