This section will provide a set of best practices and implementation guides to use with your Octopus Deploy instance. Like any best practices guide, it won’t cover 100% of all scenarios; adapt and modify them to match your company’s requirements. It is also a living document; it will change as new features are added to Octopus Deploy and we help more customers.
Whitepapers
For long-form best practices and recommendations please refer to our whitepapers.
Deployments
The Deployments section covers our recommendations and implementation guides for configuring your deployment (and runbook) processes. They are meant for platform engineers, DevOps engineers, or anyone looking to create golden paths.
The topics covered are:
- Lifecycles and Environments
- Deployment and Runbook Process
- Variables
- Step Templates and Script Modules
- Notifications
- Releases and Deployments
Octopus Administration
The Octopus Administration section covers our recommendations and implementation guides for anyone responsible and accountable for administrating Octopus Deploy for their organization.
The topics covered are:
- Environments, deployment targets, and target tags
- Projects and Project group structure
- Users, roles, and teams
- Partition Octopus with Spaces
- Offload work onto Workers
- Ongoing maintenance
Self-Hosted Octopus Deploy
The self-hosted Octopus Deploy section covers our recommendations and implementation guides for our customers who wish to self-host Octopus Deploy on their infrastructure.
The topics covered are: