Octopus Runbooks, putting the Ops in DevOps
summary
Octopus Runbooks automates real ops tasks — PowerShell and SQL scripts, Chocolatey installs, Tentacle targets, step templates, triggers and the API — to run scheduled cleanups, take production DB backups and restore them into test/dev, and auto-restart an Azure web app on failure. A sample multi‑tier app (web + SQL + Windows service) is provisioned, backed up and restored in the demo and schedules fire reliably, showing it cuts request-to-delivery from days to minutes and enables automated production fixes via scheduled runbooks.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:23What's on the agenda?
- 1:32Who is this Derek guy?
- 4:33What are Runbooks?
- 8:18Why Runbooks?
- 12:33Runbooks vs Deployments
- 15:11Use Case: Creating Infrastructure
- 16:02Use Case: Applying OS Updates
- 17:24Use Case: Restarting Problem Services
- 18:31Use Case: Failover to Disaster Recovery Site
- 19:15Scheduled Runs
- 19:43Publishing Runbooks
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