Welcome to Octopus! This book is for the explorers. The automators. The improvers. It's for all the software, platform, operations, and site-reliability engineers. It doesn't matter whether you just downloaded your first Octopus Deploy trial or you're an old friend. This book explains the concepts and features of Octopus Deploy that help you make your complex deployments and runbooks a breeze. You'll learn: - How automation brings more than just speed - What excellent deployments look like - What makes operations runbooks great - An overview of Octopus Deploy features, concepts, and terms - How you can use Octopus to level up deployments and runbooks The second edition is a complete rewrite of Exploring Octopus Deploy. It has been updated with all the features that have been added or updated since the first edition. Find out how to get the most from Octopus by using it for deployments, operations tasks, and self-service actions for your teams.