Look out! Here comes the Kra, erm, Octopus!

In an enterprise environment, publishing to live from the desktop really doesn't cut it - testing, customer approval and change tracking all require more checks, steps and environments than the usual Visual Studio or Azure tools provide.

Octopus Deploy (http://octopusdeploy.com/) is a NuGet-based system that allows great flexibility in managing deployments to numerous environments across multiple releases.

This session will give an introduction to Octopus Deploy, showing how it can be used to deploy a web site to an on-site "test" server, off-premise servers and on to Azure web role instances.

We'll also see how it can be easily integrated with a CI build system to control releases, with "tales from the trenches".