Application Provisioning with DSC and Octopus Deploy
summary
Claims that developers gain self-service provisioning by shipping a JSON DSL with their code and using DSC as an engine get tested end to end: CI builds a NuGet artifact, Octopus Deploy pushes it to nodes, and a community InvokeDSC module installs required DSC resources and modules from a repository. The pipeline produces versioned deploy logs, reduces ticket delays that used to be “three weeks” for 20–30 boxes, and makes provisioning issues almost completely disappear in practice.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:51Mydsc Game of Trials
- 3:49Requirements
- 6:30Overview
- 7:37Demo
- 13:20Octopus Deploy
- 14:49Web Application
- 19:53External Feeds
- 27:30Octopus Variables
- 29:56Why Octopus Deploy
- 30:37Pipeline
- 31:59Octopus
- 34:00Bonus Time
- 35:23Ansible
- 36:33Web JSON
- 41:47Conclusion
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