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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.

Maintaining your own version of the Azure CLI

Learn how to manage your own version of the Azure CLI and why we no longer support tooling.

Execution containers for workers: Extending the Octopus worker-tools Docker image

Unsure what image to use with the Execution containers for workers feature in Octopus? This post covers what the octopus/worker-tools image is, how to extend it, and why you might create your own image entirely.

Automatic approvals for your database deployment automation

In this post, we will examine some techniques on how to auto approve database changes to stop overwhelming your DBAs.

Building trust in an automated database deployment process

Learn techniques to build trust in your automated database deployment process and gain confidence in every part of the process.

Octopus Pipe for Bitbucket: octopus-cli-run

Learn how to integrate Octopus and BitBucket with our new experimental BitBucket Pipe called octopus-cli-run.

How we work - 2016 edition

An update on how we work as a team to build and support Octopus.

Octopus 2020.2: Execution containers for workers

Octopus 2020.2 includes execution containers for workers, better rolling deployments, and code editor improvements.

Refactoring Octopus: Modularity, Calamari, and Sashimi

Learn how our engineering team re-factored the Octopus codebase to introduce modularity, reduce complexity, and eat some sashimi.

Refactoring Octopus: Adding strict null checks to the Octopus front-end

Learn from some of the lessons we learned adding strict null checks to the Octopus front-end codebase

Database Deployments with Redgate SQL Change Automation, GitHub Actions, and Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use GitHub Actions to build a Redgate SQL Change Automation Package and push it to Octopus Deploy for deployments.

Re-thinking feature branch deployments

Feature branches should be tested prior to merging into master. All too often, companies have a single static test environment.

Database Feature Branch Deployments

Standing up a sandbox for feature branches is a common scenario. This article aims to solve that for databases.

SQL Server and PowerShell made easier with dbatools: Practical Examples

A comparison between the SqlServer and dbatools PowerShell modules

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

Octopus Deploy 3.5: Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Introducing Octopus Deploy 3.5, with new features including Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Deploying to Wildfly from Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to Wildfly hosted on a Linux server with Octopus Deploy

Self-hosted Octopus in a Cloud VM vs. Octopus Cloud

Information to consider when deciding on the right Octopus Deploy installation to use in the cloud.

Deploying Spring Boot Applications as Windows Services

Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot application as a Windows service with Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy Java Support RFC

Our plans to support Java as a first class citizen in Octopus Deploy

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

Learn how to build and configure a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun and development purposes.

Linux worker for PowerShell templates

Using a Linux worker to run Step Templates written in PowerShell.
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GitHub Organizations

Octopus Deploy houses its source code on GitHub in three organizations.

Jenkins Pipeline projects

Managing Octopus steps in a Jenkins pipeline project.

Octopus reporting with an excel template

Octopus reporting with an excel template

Report on deployments using SQL

How to report on deployments using Excel & XML

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