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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 10 - Subscriptions, System Security and Redeploy Failed Releases
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.10 of our favorite actions for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a newcomer to Continuous Integration and provides CI as a Service. Here are 10 of our favorite actions to install from the GitHub Marketplace.10 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments
The 10 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments is a comprehensive guide to building a repeatable deployment pipeline from Octopus to Kubernetes. Download the ebook.10 of our favorite Jenkins plugins
Jenkins has over 1800 community-created plugins to help with continuous integration. Here are 10 we think are useful, as part of our series about CI and build servers.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.Structured Logging with Seq
Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logsFeatured Step Template: HTTP - Test URL
Test that a URL responds at the end of a deploymentBeyond 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.KCDC and NDC 2013: Jeff French on TeamCity and Octopus Deploy
Jeff French has a great presentation coming up on continuous delivery of complex applications with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, which he'll be doing at the KCDC and NDC 2013.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.Interview: Deploying NuGet.org
Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus DeployHeartbleed and Octopus Deploy
Octopus uses SSL libraries in Windows, and so isn't vulnerable to the Hearbleed bugThe 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.Octopus goes to conferences!
Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.Adding notifications for every production deployment
An introductory guide to using subscriptions with webhooks.What does Microsoft deprecating Azure Service Management APIs mean for Octopus Users?
As Azure begin to deprecate their Azure Service Management APIs, this has knock-on effects for Octopus Users. Although Cloud Service deployments will keep working, Azure Certificate Management Accounts will no longer provide such a rich UX experience.What is shadow IT?
When we talk about Shadow IT, we're talking about IT resources that an organization doesn't have visibility on. Find out how this affects your business, and how runbooks can help.
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JSON formatted output
Formatting output from the Octopus CLICapture a crash dump
How to capture a crash dump to help the Octopus team diagnose problems when something unexpected happens.Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)
Read about our security posture in real termsDynamic 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.Retention policies
Retention policies allow you to specify the releases, packages and files you want to keep as well as the ones you want cleaned up.Azure targets
Configure your Azure infrastructureWorker Tools, Versioning and Caching
How Octopus creates, versions, caches, and releases the worker-tools docker images for use with the execution containers for workers feature.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.