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Introducing Google Cloud Platform integration for Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy now includes integration for Google Cloud Platform including built-in accounts, gcloud scripts, Terraform and Kubernetes.

Maven versions explained

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Maven versions. Learn how Maven treats different version strings.

At the helm with Harsh Sabikhi

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Harsh Sabikhi, Senior Vice President, Revenue.

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

A TeamCity plugin for Octopus!

Using the HTTPd Docker image

A detailed look at how to use the HTTPd web server with Docker.

Using the NGINX Docker image

Learn how to create Docker web apps based on the NGINX image.

Octopus March Release 2018.3

What's new in Octopus 2018.3

Deploying to Google Cloud Run

Learn how to deploy a container to the Google Cloud Run service.

Manual Deployments - RFC

Octopus plugin for Jira - Better visibility for your software pipeline

Our new Octopus Deploy plugin for Jira makes it easy to plan, track and ship software with better end-to-end visibility of your software pipeline.

Octopus 2021 Q1: Self-host Octopus on Linux

Octopus 2021 Q1: Octopus Server's Linux Docker image is Released to Web (RTW), Tentacle for ARM/ARM64, Global Search and API key management improvements.

Custom kubectl scripting in Octopus

Learn some of the tricks for scripting against kubectl in Octopus

Octopus Tentacle on ARM/ARM64

Tentacle now supports ARM/ARM64 hardware

Automated database deployment process: case study

This article walks through the steps I used to help design an automated database deployment process.

Octopus April Release 3.12

Octopus 3.12 is the start of the monthly release cadence, getting started is easier, update steps across all projects, wildcard patterns file matching for variable substitution, PowerShell debugging support, certificate-chain support, improved license notifications.

A look at the new NGINX VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources

See the features of the new custom resource definitions introduced with the NGINX v1.5 ingress controller.

Planning Octopus 2.0

We're planning some big changes for Octopus 2.0. We need to avoid second system syndrome as well as resting on our laurels.

What's new in Octopus 2.4

Step templates, script modules, a new Library tab - a ton of new features!

RFC: Linux Deployments

OctoPack 2.0

Documentation

Minimize the data-migration time

Tips to minimize the time taken to migrate your data from Octopus 2.6 to 2018.10 LTS

Find unused projects

An example script that will find any project that hasn't had a release created in the previous days

Use NGINX as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Accessing container details

Docker steps provide access to container details, including network, volume, environment variables etc., and make them available in subsequent steps.

Versioning schemes

Considerations for selecting a versioning scheme for the applications you'll deploy.

Configuring Netscaler

Script to configure a Netscaler load balancer for use with an Octopus High Availability instance.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

Find unused targets

An example script the will find provide a list of targets being unused that might cause your target count to be inflated.

Maven feeds

Configuring Maven repositories as Octopus Feeds

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