Automated Deployment with Octopus Deploy

1. Packaging

• Packages have:
• Metadata (ID, version)
• Content files
• Packages live in repositories
• FileShares
• Web Servers
• Package with NuGet Package Explorer
• upload package to octopus server vis Library Menu
• Create Project to include the Library
• Push the deploy Button to deploy the project to different servers.
• Packages could be feed from third party
• Creating packages with OctoPak
• Visual Studio NuGet Package: OctoPak, 
• via Nuget
• via package manager console
• Install-Package OctoPak
• select related Project
• Database
• Service
• WebSite
• msbuild /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release /p:RunOctoPack=true
• msbuild /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release /p:RunOctoPack=true /p:OctoPackPackageVersion=1.0.1 /p:OctoPackPublishPackageToFileShare=C:\Packages

2. Octopus Tentacle

• listening tentacle
• polling tentacle