Octopus Deploy Advanced Training
Run multi-tenant deployments, advanced release patterns and a highly available, audited Octopus platform for many teams. Learn Octopus Deploy through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Octopus Deploy levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Octopus Deploy Advanced Training.
Understand where Octopus Deploy fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Octopus Deploy is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Octopus Deploy program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Octopus Deploy training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Octopus Deploy training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Octopus Deploy usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Octopus Deploy Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Octopus Deploy training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Automate release management
Package, release and promote applications through environments with Octopus Deploy.
Operate with runbooks
Automate routine and emergency operations tasks as versioned, auditable runbooks.
Scale deployments safely
Run multi-tenant, highly available Octopus setups with governance and advanced release patterns.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Octopus Deploy responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Octopus Deploy matters
- Octopus Deploy helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Octopus Deploy becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Octopus Deploy effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Octopus Deploy concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Octopus Deploy in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Octopus Deploy for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Octopus Deploy usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Octopus Deploy.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: Octopus architecture, installation and first deploymentDay 1
- Getting started: introduction to Octopus Deploy and how it complements CI servers
- Terminology and glossary: spaces, environments, projects, releases, deployments, runbooks, targets and workers
- Octopus Deploy architecture: Octopus Server, SQL Server database, Tentacle, Calamari and built-in package feed
- How Octopus Deploy works: packages, release snapshots, lifecycle promotion and execution on targets
- Octopus Cloud overview: hosted instances, data handling, static IP addresses and permissions
- Installation requirements: Windows Server or Linux container host, SQL Server database and service permissions
- Installing Octopus Server and Tentacles: listening versus polling Tentacles, first login and licence
- Octopus as a container: running Octopus Server with Docker Compose and SQL Server
- Environments and deployment targets: creating environments and adding machines with target tags
- First Octopus deployment: package an app, create a project, define the process, create a release and deploy
- First Octopus runbook run: create a runbook, publish it and run it against an environment
- Best practices of Octopus Deploy: environment naming, small focused projects and variables over hard-coding
Essential Level = Foundation + packaging, projects, variables and lifecyclesDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Octopus Deploy packaging applications: creating zip, NuGet and tar packages with the Octopus CLI
- Package repositories: built-in repository, external NuGet, Docker, Maven and GitHub feeds, supported types
- Build server integration: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity and Bamboo pushing packages and build info
- Octopus Deploy projects: project groups, the deployment process and project recommendations
- Steps: deploy a package, run a script, IIS websites and application pools, Windows services, configuration files
- Built-in and community step library: using built-in steps, community library steps and exporting or importing projects
- Variables: scoping by environment, target tag and machine, sensitive variables and substituting variables in files
- Configuration transforms: XML and JSON configuration variables and environment-specific transforms
- Lifecycles and channels: phases, automatic promotion and release channels for hotfixes
- Approvals: manual intervention steps, guided failures and email notifications
- Infrastructure: working with deployment targets, environments, accounts and workers in Octopus Cloud
- Cloud targets: Azure Web Apps, AWS and Azure accounts, cloud regions and SSH targets
Intermediate Level = Essential + automation, runbooks, Config as Code and administrationDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Custom reusable steps: creating custom steps with parameters, versioning them and updating usages
- Project triggers: deployment target triggers, scheduled triggers and automatic release creation
- Coordinating multiple projects: Deploy a Release step, running steps in parallel and rolling deployments
- Runbooks for operations: scheduled runbooks, prompted variables, script modules and the script console
- Config as Code: version-controlled projects in Git, branches, OCL files and pull-request workflows
- Octopus CLI and API: the octopus CLI and octo.exe, Octopus.Client, the REST API and creating API keys
- Kubernetes deployments: the Kubernetes agent, YAML, Helm and Kustomize steps
- Workers and worker pools: dynamic workers, running steps on the Octopus Server and Calamari execution
- Security: users, teams, user roles, spaces, Active Directory or Entra ID sign-in and HTTPS for the web portal
- Troubleshooting the Octopus installation: raw task logs, debugging variables, listening Tentacles and request logging
- Automating Octopus installation: silent installs, Octopus.Server.exe commands and the Terraform provider
- Service accounts: permissions for the Octopus Windows service, Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and Tentacle users
- Package transfer: delta compression, offline package drop, staged uploads and custom installation directories
Advanced Level = Intermediate + multi-tenancy, deployment patterns, HA and governanceDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Octopus Deploy tenants: tenant types and tenant creation for SaaS and multi-customer deployments
- Tenant variables and tenant tags: common and project variables and tag sets for grouping tenants
- Tenant operations: tenant infrastructure, tenant lifecycles, tenant roles and security, multi-tenant deployment guides
- Deployment patterns: blue-green, canary and rolling deployments and branching strategies
- High availability: multi-node Octopus Server clusters, shared file storage, load balancers and task caps
- Isolated Octopus servers: managing multiple instances and moving projects between spaces or instances
- Migrating between self-hosted and Octopus Cloud: Export and Import Projects and data migration
- Backup and restore: SQL Server backups, the master key and file storage; upgrading Octopus Server safely
- Retention policies, auditing and reporting: audit log, deployment reports and DORA metrics in Insights
- Certificates and hardening: custom certificates for Server and Tentacle and exporting Tentacle certificates
- Platform scale: spaces per team, standard deployment processes and Terraform-managed configuration
- Diagnostics: capturing crash dumps, concurrent Tentacle processes and task concurrency tuning
- Capstone: a multi-tenant, multi-environment release pipeline with approvals, runbooks and auditing
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Octopus Deploy levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Deploy your first release with Octopus
Install Octopus Server and a Tentacle, create Dev and Test environments, and deploy a packaged web app through both.
Build a promoted multi-environment release
Push packages from a CI build, configure scoped variables, a lifecycle with manual approval and configuration transforms, and promote a release to production.
Automate operations with runbooks and Kubernetes
Create a Git-backed project that deploys to Kubernetes, add scheduled runbooks and drive releases from the Octopus CLI.
Run multi-tenant deployments at scale
Model tenants with tags and variables, roll out a canary release to a tenant group, and set up backups, retention and audit reporting.
Octopus Deploy is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Octopus Deploy with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Octopus Deploy certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Octopus Deploy level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Octopus Deploy Advanced Training
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What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
“Rajesh is very good trainer. Rajesh was able to resolve our queries and question effectively. We really liked the hands-on examples covered during this training program.”
“Very well organized training, helped a lot to understand the AWS concept and detailed related to various tools. Very helpful”
“The training was very useful and interactive. Rajesh helped develop the confidence of all.”
Rated 4.6 on Google · All testimonials · Video reviews on YouTube
Quoted as published, from learners in Rajesh Kumar's live trainings across DevOpsSchool courses.
Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Octopus Deploy path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Octopus Deploy Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Octopus Deploy level fits your team.
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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