Octopus 101
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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Your first deployment
Projects, packages and the deployment process, plus connecting GitHub as a build server.
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Environments, lifecycles, and promotion
September 30
Environments, lifecycles and channels, and how a release is promoted from Development through Test to Production.
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Runbooks: operations beyond deployment
October 14
Scheduled versus on-demand operations, and how to structure an effective emergency or rollback runbook.
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Platform Hub for practitioners
October 28
Deploy against existing policies and process templates, and spot when a guided failure signals a governance constraint.
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Variables and configuration, done right
November 11
Project variables, library variable sets, scoping and transforms: define a variable once and apply it everywhere.
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Deploying to Kubernetes with Octopus
November 25
Kubernetes targets, Helm charts and rolling updates, and how Octopus manages deployments to a cluster.
Speaker
John Bristowe
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.