Octopus publications
Books and white papers discussing the latest trends and opinions in Continuous Delivery and DevOps at scale. Our authors are experts who have spent years using and creating tools for Continuous Delivery.
Books
Deep knowledge and expert advice from our authors. Our books are available on Amazon or you can download them as PDFs for free.
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Exploring Octopus Deploy: A journey to simplify deployments and operations tasks with powerful automation
By Steve Fenton
Welcome to Octopus! This book is for the explorers. The automators. The improvers. It's for all the software, platform, operations, and site-reliability engineers. It doesn't matter whether you just downloaded your first Octopus Deploy trial or you're an old friend. This book explains the concepts and features of Octopus Deploy that help you make your complex deployments and runbooks a breeze.
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DevEx as a service: Scaling DevOps teams with platform engineering
By Matthew Casperson
DevOps teams are innovation engines. Maintaining the passion and productivity of DevOps teams at scale requires attention to their lived experience and removing friction. Or, more simply, by focusing on the developer experience (DevEx). Implementing Platform Engineering with the explicit goal of improving DevEx is the foundation of DevEx as a Service (DEaaS).
Mini-books and white papers
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Kubernetes delivery unlocked
An effective Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline for Kubernetes helps manage the cognitive overload of a complex system and lets developers focus on what they do best: writing code that delights customers.
This white paper explores the principles, practices, and tools that underpin effective Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes, specifically tailored for developers.
Published: 2024
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A leader's guide to Kubernetes CD at scale
Kubernetes provides many benefits, but it’s not a magic wand offering a one-size-fits-all solution. Executives in charge of engineering or operations at medium and large enterprises will encounter challenges as they migrate to Kubernetes. This white paper will help you understand how to align Kubernetes adoption with business goals, challenges you'll typically face, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Published: 2024
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Modern deployment and rollback strategies
Not all applications can or should implement a zero-downtime progressive-style canary deployment. This whitepaper explores the various strategies available today and the considerations for picking one.
Published: 2024
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Best practice for self-hosted Octopus Deploy high availability and disaster recovery
For customers who self-host Octopus Deploy, we provide high availability (HA). This gives you horizontal scalability and increased reliability. Combined with a disaster recovery (DR) plan and managed services with cloud providers, you can create an instance that survives almost any outage scenario.
This white paper provides a recommended HA/DR configuration for customers who self-host Octopus Deploy in public cloud providers.
Published: 2024
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A modern view of multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy is when you deliver software to many production instances, targets, or customers. But there’s no single correct way to approach multi-tenancy. With each deployment having unique needs, all organizations tackle multi-tenancy challenges differently. This white paper discusses ways to approach multi-tenancy so you can scale quickly, reliably, and securely.
Published: 2023
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The ten pillars of pragmatic deployments
We distilled our learnings from years of building a deployment automation tool into a white paper about what we think good deployments look like.
We hope you enjoy the discussion and look forward to shaping the future of pragmatic deployments with your feedback.
Published: 2023
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Deployment survey report
We asked 250 organizations to share how Octopus Deploy transformed their deployment performance. We found it made their deployments faster and more frequent.
As well as exploring the data, this white paper prodivdes advice on maximizing the benefits of deployment automation.
Published: 2023
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The importance of Continuous Delivery
In this white paper, you learn Continuous Delivery principles that will help you meet and exceed your goals.
Your deployment pipeline sets the pace of change for your whole business. By testing your product and feature ideas sooner, you’ll know what to build for your customers. In turn, you’ll know what to avoid, so you’re not wasting time or money.
Published: 2022
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Measuring Continuous Delivery and DevOps
Evidence shows the benefits of implementing Continuous Delivery and DevOps, but it’s essential to measure the results for your organization, so you know where to improve.
In this white paper, you learn how to measure your progress and combine different feedback methods to suit your needs.
Published: 2022
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How to map your deployment pipeline
How to map your deployment pipeline, addresses the challenges of adopting DevOps for any size team using any tech stack. We walk you through small steps that will make a big difference and help you get your software to customers sooner.
Published: 2022
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