Announcing GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

In June 2021, Octopus Deploy introduced its first official GitHub Actions, designed to streamline integration between GitHub builds and Octopus Deploy processes such as package pushing, release creation, and runbook execution. GitHub Actions allows users to automate software development workflows using YAML configuration files stored in Git repositories, offering a consistent and reliable process executed in containers. The blog post demonstrates how to incorporate Octopus Deploy actions into a GitHub Actions workflow, using a .NET web application as an example, to automate tasks like installing the Octopus CLI, packaging build artifacts, pushing them to Octopus, and deploying releases to a development environment. The integration leverages secrets for secure interaction with Octopus instances, which can be either cloud-based or self-hosted. This development marks a significant enhancement in automating builds and deployments, with plans to expand available actions in the future.