Derek Campbell
Octopus Deploy - Continuous Delivery Architect
Derek has worked across the world in London, Melbourne, Singapore and now from home in Glasgow, Scotland, for Octopus Deploy as a CI/CD Architect in the Customer Success team. Derek works with and helps Octopus Deploy’s biggest clients with their CI/CD pipeline and helps enable their success with Octopus Deploy.
Derek’s passion is in automating ‘all of the things’. Professionally and personally he spends a lot of time automating home, personal and professional projects. Derek has been working in the DevOps and automation world for about 6 years using a mixture of different products deploying to On-Premise, AWS and Azure.
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Automating your Database Server creation in Azure and AWS with Octopus Deploy
Too often, I hear of organizations still creating SQL Servers manually on old tin servers and even in the cloud.
As Database DevOps accelerates every year the need for automated database solutions is growing year on year. In this session, Derek will use Octopus Deploy and show and talk of different ways to deploy Database servers and clusters in Microsoft Azure and AWS that will help you with your Database automation story.
You will get access to a Github repo of different scripts you can use that include:
- Azure ARM Templates for MSSQL
- Cloudformation Template for MSSQL
- Terraform Templates for Azure
- Terraform Templates for AWS
- Guest access to an Octopus instance with the full configuration
First public delivery of talk
Turbocharging TeamCity with Octopus Deploy
TeamCity and Octopus Deploy go together like cheese and crackers, or peanut butter and jelly for our American friends. In this webinar, Derek will start with a blank TeamCity and Octopus installation and show you how to integrate TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, build a solution and take you through deploying to Development, Test and finally to Production in under an hour to both Azure and AWS.
Turbocharging Jenkins with Octopus Deploy
Jenkins and Octopus Deploy go together like cheese and crackers, or peanut butter and jelly for our American friends. In this session, Derek will show you how to integrate Jenkins and Octopus Deploy, build a solution and take you through deploying to Development, Test and finally to Production in half an hour.
My personal journey with Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrom is something that most of us struggle with, and I know I have struggled with it over the years as my career got more successful, and at times, it still happens.
In this session, I will talk through my journey with it, from first experiencing it, to Identifying it and how to overcome it.
By the end of the session, you should have the beginning of an approach on how to be your best self, and to feel that way too!
Octopus Runbooks: Putting the Ops in DevOps
People have used Octopus Deploy for some form of Ops Processes for the past 5-6 years, and most DevOps tools don't have a built-in process for ops tasks. So, you end up using a workaround, and this is where Octopus Runbooks comes to the rescue!
Runbooks for Octopus Deploy help your Operations team automate any recurring tasks, including routine maintenance tasks, provisioning temporary test environments, and SQL maintenance. Octopus Runbooks is also perfect for executing emergency tasks such as failing over to a Disaster Recovery environment or restarting a set of applications in a set order.
In this session, Derek will discuss the many benefits of Runbooks for Octopus, as well as taking you through real-life world demos and configuring and running a Runbook from scratch!