How DevOps principles power Octopus documentation

Octopus Deploy has developed a comprehensive suite of end-to-end CI/CD guides to aid teams in configuring delivery pipelines, enhancing the efficiency of software documentation through DevOps principles. These guides offer detailed, step-by-step instructions accompanied by automated screenshots and screencasts, demonstrating processes from code compilation to deployment across various technology stacks. The documentation, created by a two-person team, includes over 60 individual guides, featuring thousands of images and hours of video tailored to specific software configurations. By leveraging DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, automated testing, and continuous integration workflows, the team ensures the guides are verifiable and up-to-date, mitigating the risk of stale content. The automation framework uses tools like Selenium WebDriver and GitHub Actions to generate and maintain the media assets, enabling the documentation to reflect real-time updates and changes in software infrastructure.