Case Study: Stack Overflow achieves a standardized, version-controlled CI/CD pipeline with Octopus Deploy

Stack Overflow standardizes on a version-controlled CI/CD pipeline for their enterprise solution

Stack Overflow needed a reliable, version-controlled way to deploy and operate its enterprise Teams product across Azure VMs, bare-metal hosts and Azure Kubernetes Service while keeping a clear separation from its public platform. After previously relying on custom TeamCity scripts, Stack Overflow adopted Octopus Deploy — using features like Deployments, multi-tenancy, Runbooks and the Octopus API — to manage customer-specific infrastructure and cloud deployments at scale.

Octopus Deploy was rolled out in 2018 to provide built-in Azure support, multi-tenancy, runbook automation and an API-driven dashboard for scheduling and executing releases. By adopting Configuration as Code in Octopus, Stack Overflow now stores application code, build pipelines and deployment processes in a single GitHub repo, enabling branch-based workflows, end-to-end testing from PRs, faster-feeling deployments, standardized CI/CD across more projects, and improved operational support.

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Chris Hunt

Staff Site Reliability Engineer