Introducing Operations Runbooks for your operations team

Octopus Deploy introduces Operations Runbooks as a feature to streamline operational tasks separate from deployments, allowing tasks such as database backups, disaster recovery site failovers, and test environment refreshes to be executed independently of the deployment process. By using Runbooks, teams can maintain a clear overview of operational activities without unnecessary deployments, offering a more efficient and organized approach to managing infrastructure and application-related operations. The Runbooks feature is accessible within a project's Operations menu, enabling the separation of deployment and non-deployment tasks, with permissions for creating, editing, and deleting runbooks controlled through specific user permissions. Released as an early access feature in Octopus 2019.10, the Runbooks are designed to gather user feedback for improvement while currently having some limitations regarding variables and triggers, and the Octopus team encourages participation in the community discussion to refine the feature further.