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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.Chaos engineering and runbooks
Learn how runbooks can enrich your deployments with the Chaos Toolkit.Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application
This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.The Evolution of Auto-Deployments and Event-Sourcing
Octopus 3.4 introduces elastic and transient environments and this post explores the evolution of auto-deployments in this context.Effective DevOps metrics
A summary of the key points from the effective DevOps metrics session at SHIPPED24.Octopus Server 2019.6 with Long Term Support (LTS)
Octopus Server 2019.6 LTS is the third release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for self-hosted customers.Have you designed your application for deployment?
Strategies and ideas to simplify the deployment process of applications.Cloud-nomad architecture
As more organizations rethink their cloud and microservices decisions, it's time for cloud-nomad architectures.RFC: Docker integration
Request For Comment on proposed Docker integrationThe DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book
Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.The difference between day-0, day-1, and day-2 operations
We break down the difference between the 3 major phases of operations in DevOps.Octopus is your deployment pipeline's quarterback
With the Super Bowl on the horizon, Andy Corrigan explains how Octopus is your deployment pipeline's quarterbackFree your teams from maintenance tasks with runbooks
Find out how to reduce toil by converting manual operations tasks to automated runbooks.Improvements to Adding a Deployment Target Experience and Interface
Learn about some recent UI changes around deployment targets and why we made them.Webinar - The Right Way to Integrate Octopus Deploy with Azure Pipelines
Learn how to create your own end-to-end model for implementing an automated DevOps pipeline.Tentacle versioning and when to update
Every time a new Octopus Server instance is released we also bump the Tentacle version. Here's why and what to do about it.Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing
Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.How we work - 2016 edition
An update on how we work as a team to build and support Octopus.Encrypting connection strings in Web.config
Encrypting connection strings section in Web.config with Octopus DeployDevOps versus SDLC
Find out if the software development life cycle still has a place in the DevOps era.
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Retention policy Tentacle cleanup and troubleshooting
Reviewing and troubleshooting why some files aren't cleaned up by Octopus retention policies.Calamari
Calamari is the command-line tool invoked by Tentacle during a deployment. It knows how to extract and install NuGet packages, run the Deploy.ps1 etc. conventions, modify configuration files, and all the other things that happen during an deployment.Tentacle configuration and file storage
Octopus Tentacle configuration command reference including how to specify your file storage locations.Offline package drop
Offline package drop deployment targets allow you to deploy your applications in the most restricted security environments where Tentacles cannot be used.Server configuration and file storage
Octopus Server configuration command reference including how to specify your file storage locations.Using variables in scripts
With Octopus you can define variables for use with your custom scripts.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.