Octopus 101 is a webinar series for the people who build, run, and support deployments, with real implementation detail, not vague summaries. Each 30-minute session covers one part of the Octopus model, from your first deployment through environments, runbooks, working inside Platform Hub policies and process templates, variables, and Kubernetes. Watch live or on-demand at your own pace.
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Octopus manages a deployment end-to-end here: projects, packages, and the deployment process, followed by connecting GitHub as a build server, including webhook configuration, authentication scopes, and the underlying API calls involved.
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September 30. Environments, lifecycles, and channels are covered here, along with how a release is promoted through Development, Test, and Production according to Octopus's built-in promotion rules.
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October 14. Runbooks are addressed here: the distinction between scheduled and on-demand operations, and the structure of an effective emergency or rollback runbook.
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October 28. Platform Hub is examined here from a practitioner's perspective: deploying against existing policies and process templates, and identifying when a guided failure indicates a governance constraint rather than a defect.
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November 11. Project variables, library variable sets, scoping rules, and configuration transforms are covered here, with an emphasis on defining a variable once and having it apply correctly across every environment.
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November 25. Kubernetes targets, Helm charts, and rolling updates are covered here, demonstrating how Octopus manages deployments to a Kubernetes cluster.
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John Bristowe helps engineering teams deliver reliably as a developer advocate at Octopus Deploy. He leads community engagement, creates educational content, and appears regularly on Octopus streams and webinars. Before Octopus, John spent years in developer relations at Microsoft and Telerik/Progress, speaking at industry events and building programs for web and .NET developers. He contributes to Octopus open source, including the Octopus CLI, the Terraform provider for Octopus, and several GitHub Actions that connect build pipelines to deployment workflows. John is based in Robina, Australia, and has been active in the developer community for over two decades.
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