The pricing of the software isn’t bad either. They had started using this deployment automation system on their project and it sounded like the exact same thing I was doing, just a lot easier! Setting up the main server and it’s agents (tentacles) was quite easy and doesn’t need much explanation. A colleague of mine told me about Octopus Deploy. All of this worked quite well, but managing these scripts was quite cumbersome. I started out by scripting a lot of PowerShell to manage our Azure environment like creating all SQL servers, databases, service busses, cloud services, etc. The next logical step would be to start setting up continuous deployment. Creating a continuous integration environment was rather easy as we were already using Teamcity and adding a couple of builds isn’t much of a problem. The latest project I was working on didn’t have a continuous integration and continuous deployment environment set up yet.
