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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.

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.

Octopus June Release 2018.6

Octopus 2018.6 is building the foundation for some excellent new features coming soon!

How we work. Some recent lessons

Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed team

Running task cap and High Availability

Very soon we'll be launching Octopus: High Availability (HA) edition. To prepare for High Availability, we're making a few changes which will make it easier to manage Octopus server workloads.

Automated Database Deployments Series Kick Off

Automated Database Deployments Series Kick Off

Introducing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud has been a while in the making. In this post we look at how and why Octopus Cloud came to be, and what the future may look like

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

Bitbucket Pipelines - Octo.exe Container Redux

Deployments from Bitbucket to Octopus is now easier when using Containers

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Packaging for .NETCore, on .NETCore, with Octopus

Using Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications on .NETCore

Eating our own dog food

How using Octopus to manage Octopus Cloud has helped us eat our own dog food and improve

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Announcing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud is now generally available!

Kubernetes, Containers, and Octopus - An Update

A progress update on adding Kubernetes support to Octopus

Octopus Workers

Octopus now supports external worker machines

Octopus July Release 2018.7

Octopus 2018.7 - Sharing the Workload with Workers!

Webinar - Starting the DevOps Journey

Taking a DevOps approach and paving the way for staying ahead in business

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Webinar - DevOps Deep Dive

All your DevOps questions answered

Integrating docker-compose steps with Octopus Deploy

Performing docker-compose is easy with the new script running capabilities

Octopus Workers and Performance

Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performance

Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore

An adventure in build tools and Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications

Octopus 2018.8 Release

Octopus 2018.8 - Script Step Packages and Kubernetes Alpha

Packages in Script Steps

As of Octopus 2018.8 Script Steps will have the ability to reference packages

Introducing long-term Support for Octopus Server

In Q4 2018 we will be shipping our first release of Octopus Server with long-term support.
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Workers

External workers are machines that can execute steps that don't need to be performed on the Octopus Server or deployment targets.

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