{"id":7129,"date":"2019-10-18T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:56:25","slug":"what-is-octopus-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/what-is-octopus-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Octopus Deployment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Octopus is the deployment automation server for your entire team. It designed to make easy to release and deploy applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Octopus Deploy is a software that has allowed us to modernize<br>our software or application development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the benefits related to Remote deployments is an instant switching between version &#8212; Tentacle extracts new version&nbsp;into the new folder then just switching web site registration in IIS. There is no point in time when a web site has part of the<br>files from one version and part from another, which is common when using scripts to copy files over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advantages of Octopus Deployment?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Octopus uses the same deployment packages across environments and makes it easy to track their progress across those environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Octopus makes it easy to handle configuration across environments which is usually a particularly difficult task.<br>3. Octopus Deploy is used by our department to facilitate the deployment of many applications to many servers.<br>4. Octopus Deploy makes it very easy to deploy applications to one or several servers with the click of a button.<br>5. Many different platforms, languages, and operating systems are supported. You can deploy to your own server or the cloud.<br>You can deploy to Windows, Linux, etc.<br>6. Many different &#8220;step templates&#8221; are included, which make it very easy to deploy what you want, how you want. Such as deploying over SSH, FTP, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Octopus Deploy is well suited when you have more than a handful or servers or more than a handful of projects. You don&#8217;t want developers publishing from<br>Visual Studio. Octopus Deploy makes it easy to deploy correctly every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octopus is the deployment automation server for your entire team. It designed to make easy to release and deploy applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Octopus Deploy is a software that has allowed us to modernizeour software or application development. One of the benefits related to Remote deployments is an instant switching between version&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5208],"tags":[460,5209,5405,182],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-octopus-deploy","tag-linux","tag-octopus-deploy","tag-software-applications","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7133,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}