Octopus Fundamentals
The first step in becoming an Octopus Deploy expert.
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What's included?
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Understanding the Octopus Way
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Main concepts in Octopus Deploy
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Text and video to match your learning style
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Certificate and Credly badge
Become an Octopus Expert
Take the first step to learn about the main concepts in Octopus Deploy and how it all works. This creates the basis for further learning and helps you discover new ways of using the tool.
Earn your first Octopus certification
The Octopus Fundamentals certification is a pre-requisite for more advanced learning in the future.
At the end of the course, you will also earn a Credly badge to verify your credentials.
At the end of the course, you will also earn a Credly badge to verify your credentials.
Meet the instructors
Steve Fenton
Steve is a Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy, a DORA Community Guide, and a 8-time Microsoft MVP with more than two decades of experience in software delivery. He has written books on TypeScript (Apress, InfoQ), Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations. Steve has worked in the role of Software Engineer, SDET, Development Manager, and Director of Product and Data in a range of startups, SMEs, and enterprises.
Matt Allford
Matt is a Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy with over 15 years of experience across infrastructure, development, and operations. With a passion for education and content creation, he has authored courses at Pluralsight and presented at conferences across Australia and America, sharing his expertise in DevOps engineering, platform engineering, and cloud technologies. Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer specializing in helping customers realize value from modern deployment automation and cloud-native solutions.
Course contents
Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way.
Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. At Octopus, we create happy deployments, and by extension, happy software teams. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications.
With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects.
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Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. At Octopus, we create happy deployments, and by extension, happy software teams. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications.
With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects.
Copyright © 2026