Play by Play: Modernizing Your Deployment Strategy with Octopus Deploy
by Troy Hunt and Damian Brady
There are many ways software deployments can go wrong. In this Play by Play, Troy Hunt and Damian Brady share tips and tools that can ensure smooth deployments.
What you'll learn
Software deployment is both an essential and inevitable part of the development lifecycle, yet it's frequently suboptimal. Inefficient deployments lead to numerous risks and inefficiencies when it comes time to release software; this is where Octopus Deploy comes in. In this Play by Play, Damian and Troy discuss the problems with traditional release management and look at how Octopus addresses these by using a reliable, repeatable, and automatable deployment methodologies.
About the authors
Troy Hunt is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security, an ASPInsider, and a full time Author for Pluralsight—a leader in online training for technology and creative professionals. Troy has been building software for browsers since the very early days of the web and possesses an exceptional ability to distill complex subjects into relatable
explanations. This has led Troy to become an industry thought leader in the security space and produce more than twenty top-rated courses ... morefor Pluralsight. Currently, Troy is heavily involved in Have I been pwned? (HIBP) a free service that aggregates data breaches and helps people establish potential impacts from malicious web activity. Troy blogs regularly about web security and is a frequent speaker at industry
conferences across the globe and throughout the media to discuss a wide range of technologies. Troy has been featured in a number of articles with publications including Forbes, TIME magazine, Mashable, PCWorld, ZDNet and Yahoo! Tech. Aside from technology and security, Troy is an avid snowboarder, windsurfer and tennis player
Damian Brady is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and Developer Technologies and works as a Solution Architect for Octopus Deploy. Damian also co-authored Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 from Wiley. Damian runs the Brisbane .NET User Group, and the annual DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Brisbane conference. Damian spends a lot of time training teams on how to improve their software, be it through improving their agile process, devops, or code quality. Damian regularly speaks at conferences, ... moreUser Groups, and other events, but most of the time you'll find him working on Octopus Deploy, or helping teams get the most out of their DevOps strategies. Damian writes software mainly for the web using Nancyor ASP.NET MVC combined with healthy amounts of JavaScript and Angular, and usually cuts code in visual Studio 2015 and manage his work with Visual Studio Team Services or GitHub.