Jaws Deploy guides

What is Jaws Deploy? A short tour of what Jaws Deploy does, who it's for, and how it sits between CI and production. Read guide Getting Started with Jaws Deploy Sign up, create a workspace, model your first environment, install an agent, and ship a release. Read guide Jaws Deploy vs. Traditional Deployment Tools Why teams move away from "deploy.ps1 in the build server" once they have more than one environment to keep honest. Read guide The Role of Jaws Deploy in CI/CD Workflows Where Jaws Deploy fits next to your CI tool, what each owns, and how they hand off. Read guide

Integrating Jaws Deploy with TeamCity Use the TeamCity plugin or PowerShell SDK to create releases after every successful build. Read guide Integrating GitHub Actions Trigger releases from a GitHub Actions workflow using the REST API or PowerShell SDK. Read guide Integrating GitLab CI Call Jaws Deploy from a `.gitlab-ci.yml` job to ship every build to a staging environment. Read guide Integrating Jenkins Wire a Jenkins pipeline step that creates and optionally deploys a Jaws Deploy release. Read guide Integrating Azure Pipelines Call Jaws Deploy from an Azure DevOps pipeline using a service connection and an API key. Read guide Integrating CircleCI Trigger Jaws Deploy releases from a CircleCI job using the REST API. Read guide

Projects and Deployment Logic What a project is, what it owns, and how its deployment process holds together. Read guide Project Steps Explained The unit of work inside a deployment process - ordered, scoped, and re-runnable. Read guide Step Templates in Action Take a step you've copy-pasted three times and turn it into a versioned template with inputs. Read guide Custom Script Modules Share PowerShell helper functions across every script step in every project. Read guide Environments and Targets Model deployment stages and the machines or cloud services that receive deployments. Read guide Cloud Targets Deploy to Azure Web Apps and other managed services without installing an agent. Read guide Managing Machines Register, group, and decommission Windows and Linux machines as deployment targets. Read guide Azure Web App Deployment Walkthrough: configure an Azure Web App cloud target and deploy a release to it. Read guide

The Power of Variables Why scoped variables remove most of the configuration pain teams hit in CI scripts. Read guide Variable Resolution Rules How Jaws Deploy picks a value when several scopes match the same variable. Read guide Nested and Referenced Variables Compose values from other variables and reuse them across steps and config files. Read guide

Creating Releases What a release captures, when to create one, and how to drive creation from CI. Read guide Executing Deployments What happens when a release is deployed - target resolution, step execution, and live logs. Read guide Release Progression with Lifecycles Define the ordered phases a release must walk through before it reaches production. Read guide Deployment History and Auditing Use deployment history to investigate incidents, prove what shipped, and answer auditor questions. Read guide

Using Package Feeds How feeds, packages, and deployment steps fit together in a release. Read guide Built-in Package Store Push artefacts straight to the Jaws Deploy built-in feed without standing up a separate registry. Read guide Connecting External Feeds Point Jaws Deploy at the artefact server you already run - NuGet, Artifactory, S3, Azure Artifacts. Read guide

Installation Guide (Jaws Deploy Stack) Install the self-hosted Jaws Deploy Stack on a Windows or Linux server. Read guide Installing the Jaws Deploy Agent Install the agent on Windows and Linux machines so they can receive deployments. Read guide Setting Up a Proxy for Stack Run Jaws Deploy Stack behind a reverse proxy (nginx, IIS, Apache) with HTTPS. Read guide Adding OIDC to Stack Authenticate Stack users through Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace, or any OIDC provider. Read guide Service Accounts and Automation Create non-human identities for CI tools and automation scripts that call the REST API. Read guide

Migrating from Octopus Deploy What carries over cleanly, what changes in shape, and where to start. Read guide