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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 11 - Automatically Cancel Tasks, Progression Prevention and Compliance

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 28-30 - JSON configuration substitution, Octopus server as cattle & Active Directory breaking changes.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten and how we went about solving them.

PowerShell and IIS: 20 practical examples

Real-world examples tested on Windows 2008 R2 through to 2016. Creating sites, configuring application pools, and examples in both the old WebAdministration module and the newer IISAdministration module.

DDD Brisbane 2013

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

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

Beyond 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.

Webinar - The Right Way to Integrate Octopus Deploy with Azure Pipelines

Learn how to create your own end-to-end model for implementing an automated DevOps pipeline.

Lessons learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Some of the lessons I learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Hosting a Maven repo in Amazon S3

Learn how to host a fully functional Maven repository in Amazon S3

Octopus will be at Code Conf 2019

Octopus are silver sponsors of Code Conf in Copenhagen this year.

Creating EC2 instance in AWS with CloudFormation

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

Deploy Google's Online Boutique microservice stack in Octopus

Learn how to import an existing microservice application stack into Octopus, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

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.

In Octopus 3.0, we're switching from RavenDB to SQL Server

Continuous Delivery with Octopus and Kubernetes

This training series provides a step by step walk-through building multi-environment deployments with Octopus and Kubernetes.

Blue/green deployments

Watch the blue/green deployment strategy, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Getting started with Docker

This post opens our Kubernetes training series. First, learn how to install Docker on your local workstation.

Installing a development Kubernetes cluster

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn to to install a local development Kubernetes cluster with kind.

Creating Docker containers

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn how to create a Docker image and run it as a container.

Deploying to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Kubernetes cluster as an Octopus target and deploy applications to it, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Multi-environment deployments

Learn how to progress deployments to multiple environments as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Installing a dashboard

Learn how to install helm and then use it to install a dashboard to monitor the cluster, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Observing deployment strategies

Watch in realtime as pods are redeployed with different deployment strategies, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

ConfigMaps and Secrets

Learn how to configure applications with ConfigMaps and Secrets, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Documentation

Java error messages and troubleshooting

Java deployment steps include a number of unique error codes that may be displayed in the output if there was an error

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

Trend indicators

Insights helps spot performance trends

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.

Accessing container details

Docker steps provide access to container details, including network, volume, environment variables etc., and make them available in subsequent steps.

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