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Operations Runbooks: Putting the Ops in DevOps

Operations Runbooks put the Ops in DevOps and automate routine maintenance and emergency operations (incident response) tasks.

What is a container registry? A guide + top 8 registries to consider

There are many container registry services, suitable for all different kinds of teams. We look at the top 8 and why you might consider them.

Runbooks best practices

This post provides a step by step template you can use to generate high quality runbooks in Octopus.

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?

Mapping manual deployments with Octopus Deploy

Find out how to map your manual deployments to create a template that helps you start your automation journey.

DevOps and Platform Engineering

Find out where Platform Engineering fits into a DevOps process and why both DevOps and Platform Engineering can help your organization attain high performance.

Ask Octopus Episode 9 - Composite Step Templates, Maintenance Process and Environment Templates

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Infrastructure as code with Terraform for developers

Learn about infrastructure as code and Terraform for developers.

Installing a dashboard

Learn how to install helm and then use it to install a dashboard to monitor the cluster, as part of our Kubernetes training series

The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.

DevOps, runbooks, and kubectl

The top reasons to use Octopus Runbooks to manage your Kubernetes cluster.

Alternative Kubernetes dashboards

A look at some alternative Kubernetes dashboards

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

Proper scrutiny is important, but CABs are an inefficient and ineffective way to scrutinize.

Octopus Deploy 2017 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2017, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

Self-service runbooks for operations teams

Learn about self-service runbooks and how they benefit operations teams

Using build information for visibility across your CI/CD pipelines

Learn how to include build information from your CI server in your CD processes.

PaaS Deployment Targets

We are introducing new deployment targets to represent the platform-as-a-service offerings

Chaos engineering and runbooks

Learn how runbooks can enrich your deployments with the Chaos Toolkit.

Linting your Kubernetes cluster with Clusterlint and runbooks

Learn how Clusterlint can be built into your workflow with runbooks.

Implementing DevOps in State Government

The story of how I implemented DevOps practices at a state government agency

Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

Managing Ansible Deployments with Octopus

Learn how to deploy Ansible scripts from Octopus

How to structure your Git repository for DevOps automation

Learn how to structure your Git repositories to store your scripts, infrastructure as code configuration files, application configuration files, docs and more.

Inside DevOps with Dan Horrocks-Burgess from DDA Software

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Dan Horrocks-Burgess of DDA Software.

Free your teams from maintenance tasks with runbooks

Find out how to reduce toil by converting manual operations tasks to automated runbooks.

Reflections on 2017

A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update

Custom kubectl scripting in Octopus

Learn some of the tricks for scripting against kubectl in Octopus

Reprioritizing the task queue

Learn about our new feature that lets you reprioritize the task queue in Octopus.
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