Octopus publications
Reports, books and whitepapers covering 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.
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The AI Pulse report
The AI Pulse report examines how AI adoption is transforming software development. Our research is based on survey data from technology professionals worldwide, combined with industry research data and an extensive literature review.
The goal of this report was to explore current AI adoption patterns, AI capabilities, AI’s impact on developers, and identify recommendations for a sustainable path forward.
Previous reports
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Compliance through Continuous Delivery
This report shows how automated Continuous Delivery pipelines can simultaneously increase throughput and stability.
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Platform Engineering Pulse report
Learn what's driving Platform Engineering success and where theory meets reality, based on survey data from technical professionals.
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The State of GitOps report
The State of GitOps report investigates the adoption, practices, and benefits of a GitOps approach.
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Achieving Continuous Delivery with TPF
How trunk-based development, progressive rollouts, and feature toggles work together to make deployments consistent and low-risk.
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Deployment survey report
Explore the transformational impact of deployment automation across 250 organizations using Octopus Deploy.
Books
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Exploring Octopus Deploy: A journey to simplify deployments and operations tasks with powerful automation
Discover the concepts and features of Octopus Deploy that turn complex deployments and operation tasks into streamlined, automated processes.
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DevEx as a service: Scaling DevOps teams with platform engineering
Implementing Platform Engineering with the explicit goal of improving DevEx is the foundation of DevEx as a Service (DEaaS).
White papers
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Argo CD best practices
This paper covers the initial installation of Argo CD, and also talks about several day-2 operations which are not part of the official documentation.
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A leader's guides to Kubernetes CD at scale
This paper will help you understand how to align Kubernetes adoption with business goals, challenges you'll face, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
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Modern deployment and rollback strategies
This whitepaper explores the various strategies available today and the considerations for picking one.
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Best practice for self-hosted Octopus Deploy HA/DR
This white paper provides a recommended HA/DR configuration for customers who self-host Octopus Deploy in public cloud providers.
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A modern view of multi-tenancy
This white paper discusses ways to approach multi-tenancy so you can scale quickly, reliably, and securely.
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The ten pillars of pragmatic deployments
We've distilled our learnings from years of building a deployment automation tool into a white paper about what we think good deployments look like.
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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.
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Measuring Continuous Delivery and DevOps
In this white paper, you learn how to measure your progress and combine different feedback methods to suit your needs.
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How to map your deployment pipeline
We walk you through small steps that will make a big difference and help you get your software to customers sooner.
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Kubernetes delivery unlocked
This guide explores the principles, practices, and tools that underpin effective Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes, tailored for developers.
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