Paul Stovell (author) - Page 8

Paul and Sonia Stovell founded Octopus Deploy in 2012. In the years before, Paul had watched programmers at organizations of all sizes routinely remote into production machines to patch configuration files or write long and semi-complete documents because automating deployments was too time-consuming.

These practices were hampering organizations' ability to deliver and give their customers confidence. The concept of Octopus came about to solve those problems. Today, we still believe wholeheartedly in the importance of automated, frequent, repeatable deployments.

Illustration of a central workflow document connected by curved lines to five smaller documents, each with a green check.

DRY isn't just for application code

Reusable GitHub workflows solved our copy-paste pipeline problem, but raised new questions about versioning, testing changes, and what platform teams can actually see and control.