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Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings
Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.Automating support emails with Octopus Runbooks
You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases
The first step towards safe production releases... safe dev/test deployments.Variable specificity and complexity
Variables can be scoped to multiple values. What's the simplest way to score them?Reflections on 2017
A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company updateOctopus Deploy 2018 Roadmap
This post outlines our roadmap for 2018, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.An Introduction to Hollow JARs
Learn what Hollow JARs are and how you can create them from you existing WAR files.Why you should take a look at Kotlin's standard library
See how run, let, also and apply can improve your Kotlin code.Octopus Deploy version changes for 2018
This post outlines our decision to change versioning strategy for Octopus Deploy to a style matching our iterative, monthly release cadence. It also describes how we arrived at our decision and how continuous delivery has fundamentally changed the way we plan, build, and release our software.Octopus January Release 2018.1
What's new in Octopus 2018.1Octopus React UI Permissions
Inside look into the React UI permissionsContinuous Delivery of Octopus
How we're delivering higher quality releases of Octopus Deploy in less time.Coordinating Projects with the Deploy Release Step
We have introduced a new 'Deploy Release' step type which allows coordination between Octopus ProjectsDeploy .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus
Learn how to deploy your .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus.Trust Me - Assigning and Assuming IAM Roles
Learn how to use roles assigned to EC2 instances and assume secondary roles.Octopus February Release 2018.2
What's new in Octopus 2018.2Deploying an ASP.NET Core app - Will it Deploy? Episode 1
We try to automate the deployment of a ASP.NET core web app to Microsoft's Azure platform with infrastructure provisioning and zero production downtime.Setting up an Octopus Deploy Trial Locally
Learn how to install a local evaluation instance of Octopus DeployHow to install and configure NGINX with Octopus Deploy
Learn how to create a repeatable deployment process for installing and configuring NGINX.Azure changes in 3.1
We recently made big changes to deployment targets and Azure cloud services in Octopus 3.0, and it turns out we got our design wrong. In 3.1, we'll be reverting to the 2.6-era way of deploying cloud services. This change will also affect the way we deploy Azure web apps.
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Credits
Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.Process dumps
Octopus Server and Tentacle process dumpsTroubleshooting AWS transport level errors
A guide for troubleshooting AWS Transport Errors.Log files
Octopus Server and Tentacle log file locations and details.How to get a database backup and encrypt your Master Key
Guides the user on producing a database backup binary file (.bak) and encrypt their Master Key to provide us with.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.