Octopus 101: Provisioning in AWS with CloudFormation and Runbook Automation
52:22

Adam Close
Solutions Architect
Octopus Deploy

Michael Levan
Developer Advocate
Cloudskills.io
CloudFormation is a powerful technology that makes it easy to provision and tear down infrastructure on-demand in AWS. Combined with runbook and deployment automation in Octopus, you can build your application infrastructure, deploy your applications, and tear it down whenever needed.
In this webinar, Continuous Delivery Architect Adam Close and Developer Advocate Michael Levan will cover how to:
- Provision and tear down Linux servers with Runbook Automation
- Save cloud computing costs with runbook scheduling - Deploy CloudFormation templates to AWS
- Deploy a Java web application to Tomcat
Meet the speakers

Adam Close
Solutions Architect – Octopus Deploy
Adam Close is a Solutions Architect at Octopus Deploy. Adam helps our customers by providing advice to improve and automate their CI/CD pipelines. He also contributes to blogs and webinars to educate both new and experienced Octopus users. His extensive knowledge of Octopus comes from using the product since version 3. Before starting with us, Adam worked for organizations that supplied healthcare software to the NHS.

Michael Levan
Developer Advocate – Cloudskills.io
Michael Levan is a tech enthusiast and engineer at heart. He is a Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy and is the Founder & Chief Engineer at CloudDev.Engineering LLC. Michael is a blogger, public speaker, author, all-around content developer, and utterly fascinated with DevOps and Cloud Engineering.