Free your teams from maintenance tasks with runbooks
Make your routine and emergency operations tasks repeatable and reliable by automating them with Octopus Runbooks.
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Our customers run over 150,000 runbooks every day, giving thousands of hours back to teams for high-impact work.
To keep your software running, you have to manage routine maintenance and emergency operations tasks. These tasks usually need a high level of access, so take time from senior staff and ops teams.
With Octopus Runbooks you can automate and offload these ops tasks, and let other teams self-serve so they're never blocked.
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Make time for crucial work: Free your ops team from time-consuming, repetitive work.
Set once, run any time: Set your steps once and let teams trigger a runbook with one click.
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Decrease tickets, increase security: Let people self-serve without access to the underlying infrastructure.
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Less human error, more flexibility: Automate tasks and choose if you need human intervention.
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The Continuous Delivery tool your operations team can use too
Set and forget routine operations
Automate manual tasks and make them self-service with runbooks. Teams don’t need to remote into servers, renew SSL certificates, or click through cloud management portals. Automating your processes means you can feel confident that everything will get done, in the right order, every time.
Reduce the risk of major incidents
Be prepared if something goes wrong. Set up runbooks to restart a server or perform a graceful failover to your standby region when there's an incident.
Make testing simple and repeatable
With your environments and variables defined in Octopus, runbooks are repeatable just like deployments. You can use them in your test environments so you're confident in production.
Automate infrastructure provisioning
For elastic or transient environments, use runbooks to deploy templates for cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. Or, apply a Terraform template, destroy a Terraform resource, or create Terraform plans.
How runbooks work in Octopus
Watch the short video below for an introduction to runbooks in Octopus
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Operations teams need to support software in production. They keep your product ticking over so your customers can use it when they need it.
Runbooks let you automate these day-2 ops tasks. You can also give folks permissions to self-serve without admin access, and without the delays caused by queues of requests.
There are hundreds of ways you can use runbooks in Octopus. Here are 3 common tasks people use runbooks for:
Routine operations
Tasks that happen infrequently. For example:
- Patching a server
- Stopping a website
- Renewing SSL certificates
View more routine operations runbooks in our docs.
Emergency operations
Tasks that you have to respond to quickly following an alert. For example:
- Failing over to a disaster recovery site
- Restarting a server
View more emergency operations runbooks in our docs.
Infrastructure provisioning
Tasks that are used with an elastic or transient environment. For example:
- Deploying an AWS CloudFormation template
- Deploying an Azure ARM template
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Webinar: Free your teams from maintenance tasks with runbooks
Watch our on-demand webinar with Michael Richardson, Product Director, and Steve Fenton, Principle DevEx Researcher and author of Exploring Octopus Deploy.
You’ll learn:
- What runbooks are and the problems they solve
- The way the Runbooks feature has evolved
- How customers are using runbooks to simplify their maintenance and operations tasks
Ready to try Runbooks?
All Octopus licenses include Runbooks. Start a free 30-day trial or contact us if you have any questions.