October 2024 Summaries

In this installment of the Inside DevOps series, Félix Brunet Girard, Lead DevOps Specialist at TELUS Health, discusses his perspective on DevOps as a culture that aligns development and operations teams, emphasizing the importance of understanding deployment impacts and security implications. He shares insights from his DevOps journey, which began at Croesus, where he transitioned from a developer background to focus more on DevOps tools and practices. At TELUS Health, they have implemented best practices like a "golden pipeline" for streamlined application deployment and use Octopus for continuous deployment to enhance efficiency and standardization across various environments. Félix highlights challenges such as mastering diverse cloud technologies and tool integrations, while also noting the rewarding aspects of helping others achieve their goals and constantly learning new technologies. He advises newcomers to start small and be curious, recommending several books for further learning, and shares an interesting personal fact about his third-degree black belt in Chinese Kenpo.

Configuration as Code for Runbooks is being introduced to Octopus Cloud customers, addressing a highly requested feature that allows runbooks to benefit from version control, similar to deployment processes. This feature enables users to track runbook processes in a Git repository alongside application code and deployment files, enhancing synchronization and version history accessibility. With this update, users can make and test runbook changes on branches without affecting team operations, eliminating the need for separate published and draft versions. Runbook permissions remain consistent, with Runbook Producers able to run any version and Runbook Consumers limited to the latest default branch version. The rollout to Cloud customers is imminent, with a self-hosted release forthcoming, and a simple migration tool will facilitate the transition to this new system.