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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.

Releases, deployments and variable snapshots

RFC - Cloud and Infrastructure Automation Support

Webinar, May 6th: What's new in Octopus 2.4!

Come along to this webinar to learn more about the features in Octopus 2.4

Announcing Octopus Deploy 3.0 pre-release

Octopus Deploy 1.1

The Power of Configuration Transformations

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

RFC: Branching

Runbook lessons learned and recommendations

Recommendations from lessons learned on how to design and implement runbooks

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.

Automating Octopus with Azure Functions

Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.

Octopus vs. Build Servers

Deployment targets in Octopus 3.0 (RFC)

Listening and Polling Tentacles, SSH, Azure Websites, Azure Cloud Services, WebDeploy, offline drops and more.

Preparing to Migrate

Why Octopus doesn't use the .NET Service Bus (or polling)

Deleting Releases via the Command Line

How does Octopus handle rollbacks?

Octopus 2.0: Health checks will now check for free disk space

New logo

Octopus Deploy now has a new logo, designed by Corey Ginnivan

New in 2.0: Polling Tentacles

Tentacle can be configured to use polling mode, which polls the Octopus Server asking for jobs to do.

Still deploying manually? What you're missing

By automating deployments, they become less painful and more reliable, which allows you to make them more frequently.

Octopus 3.0 pre-release is here

RFC: Lifecycles

Lifecycles enable automation and rules around promotion

BuildDeploySupport: Sharing PowerShell scripts in Octopus

A guest blog post by Jonathan Goldman on his open source project that makes it easier to share PowerShell scripts in Octopus projects.

RFC: Octopus Reactions - Integration toolkit

A proposal for a feature we're calling Reactions. A set of tools to enable event based integration with a wide range of third party products. We'd love you to have your say!

RFC: Improving the Create Release screen

A mockup of a new design for the create release screen

Future of Deployment: Nano Server and .NET Core

Nano Server is an extremely small version of Windows Server. .NET Core is a small version of the .NET runtime. Together, I believe they are the future of how applications will run in production.

Documentation

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle.

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