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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.

Ask Octopus Episode 12 - Environment Approval Gates, Worker Pools Per Environment

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 22-24 - Different package for different step templates, moving Octopus & Octopus Server version comparison

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.

An Introduction to Arquillian Testing

Testing Java EE code requires more than just a unit test. This blog post looks at how Arquillian solves the problem of testing Java EE apps.

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

Learn how to create a WebDriver project in Java with this blog series.

Authenticate to Azure with Golang

Authenticating to a cloud platform with the different SDK can be extremely different. In this post, you learn how to authenticate to Azure with Go.

A first look at Jenkins X

Jenkins X is a complete mental shift from the traditional role of a CI server. In this post, we take a high-level look at Jenkins X and highlight why you need to appreciate it on its own terms.

RFC: Improving the Create Release screen

A mockup of a new design for the create release screen

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Deploying to Google Cloud Functions

Learn how to deploy functions to the Google Cloud Platform.

Mixing Kubernetes Roles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoles, and ClusterBindings

This post looks at the results of mixing the various roles and bindings available in Kubernetes

Octopus 1.5 with Azure and FTP deployments, plus ScriptCS support!

Today we released Octopus Deploy 1.5, which features support for Windows Azure cloud service deployments, as well as deployments via FTP/FTPS.

The ultimate guide to rolling deployments

What are rolling deployments and why are they useful? This post covers the rolling deployment pattern and practical examples of how to implement it with different tooling.

Creating EC2 instance in AWS with CloudFormation

Learn how to create Windows and Linux EC2 instances in AWS with example CloudFormation templates

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0
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Documentation

Enable web request logging

How to enable web request logging to help the Octopus team analyze usage patterns and detecting performance problems.

Trend indicators

Insights helps spot performance trends

IIS Runbooks

With Octopus Deploy you can manage IIS with runbooks as part of your routine operations tasks.

Dynamic Worker pools

Dynamic Worker pools are used in our cloud product to dynamically create and assign workers to running tasks. This page describes how dynamic worker pools work.

Execution containers for workers

How to set a step in your deployment/runbook process to run inside a container.

Providing database performance metrics

How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Certificate variables

Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the value

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

Hardening Windows

With Octopus Deploy you can harden your Windows machines with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

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