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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.

Getting started with LDAP auth provider

Learn how to configure your self-hosted Octopus Deploy instance to work with the new LDAP auth provider.

RFC: Branching

5 Remote Desktop Alternatives

Five alternative Remote Desktop tools

Safe schema updates - Resilient vs robust IT systems

Learn about the nature of failure in complex IT systems, and the benefits and drawbacks of designing for resilience vs robustness.

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files with Octopus Deploy

Automated deployment with TFS Team Build and Octopus Deploy

Previous deployments

In 2.5.4 we added the ability to more easily view previous deployments

Creating dynamic run conditions with new Octostache filters

Learn how to use new filters in Octostache with variable run conditions.

New in Azure DevOps for Octopus Deploy v6

Find out what's new in v6 of the Octopus Azure DevOps plugin and why we made the changes.

Inside DevOps with Jason Dunnivant from Olo

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our first post features Jason Dunnivant, Release Engineer at Olo.

Octopus Cloud connectivity disruption - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the Octopus Cloud network connectivity disruption from January 25, 2023.

Improving PowerShell compatibility

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!

Documentation

Polling Tentacles over WebSockets

Octopus Polling Tentacles open a connection to the Octopus Server over WebSockets to ask what to do.

Poll server

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure the Octopus Server this Tentacle will poll.

Server comms

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure how the Tentacle communicates with the Octopus Server.

Register Worker

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to register this machine as a Worker with an Octopus Server.

Register with

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to register this machine as a deployment target with an Octopus Server.

LDAP Authentication

Octopus Deploy can use LDAP authentication to identify users.

Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing the latest version of Tentacle.

Legacy Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing legacy versions of Tentacles.

Running Tentacle under a specific user account

Information on how to run Tentacle under a specific user account.

Permissions required for the Tentacle Windows Service

Everything you need to know about the permissions your Tentacles need.

octopus project variables exclude

Exclude a variable set from a project

octopus project variables include

Include a variable set in a project

Proxy

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure the HTTP proxy used by Octopus.

Octopus REST API

Octopus integrates with build servers, scripts, external applications and anything else with its REST API.

Calamari

Calamari is the command-line tool invoked by Tentacle during a deployment. It knows how to extract and install NuGet packages, run the Deploy.ps1 etc. conventions, modify configuration files, and all the other things that happen during an deployment.

API examples

A set of examples using the Octopus REST API to accomplish tasks.

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