Deploying databases presents unique challenges and this course will plot your path towards database deployment, with hands-on examples of complex database deployments. In this course, Deploying Databases with Octopus, you will gain the ability to perform complex database synchronizations against your database servers. First, you will learn how to script common database changes. Next, you will discover how to execute and track these scripts using DbUp. Finally, you will explore how to execute these projects in Octopus. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of database deployment and Octopus needed to automate your complex database deployments.
Author Name: Chris Behrens
Author Description:
Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He … more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Understanding Deployment and Synchronization
  5mins
• Introducing DbUp
  13mins
• Creating Database Deployment Projects in Octopus
  12mins
• Version Controlling Your Database Deployments
  18mins
• Creating Schema Update Projects with Octopus
  12mins
• Creating Data Update Projects with Octopus
  15mins
• Tackling Common Database Deployment Patterns
  13mins
• Where to Go from Here
  10mins