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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.

Festive Tech Calendar - Octopus hackathon

Get involved with the Octopus Deploy hackathon and you could win one of three Octopus swag bundles.

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.

Why you should take a look at Kotlin's standard library

See how run, let, also and apply can improve your Kotlin code.

Dropping support for Windows Server 2003 machines

Octopus Deploy will drop support for targets and Workers running Windows Server 2003 from the 2024.1 release.

Deprecations coming in 2024

Octopus will do some spring cleaning in 2024 and drop support for outdated features. Learn which ones and why.

Change a runbook process to use execution containers

Learn how to change a runbook from running on a worker machine directly to using execution containers.

Bitbucket Pipelines: Pipes and integrating with Octopus Deploy

What are Bitbucket Pipes, and how can you integrate them into your Bitbucket Pipeline with Octopus Deploy?

Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions

A post showing how to create a GitHub Action that pushes a package to Octopus.

Reusable YAML with CircleCI orbs

An overview of using and creating CircleCI Orbs.

The ultimate guide to Kubernetes microservice deployments

Learn how to deploy microservices into a Kubernetes cluster with Octopus Deploy.

Have you designed your application for deployment?

Strategies and ideas to simplify the deployment process of applications.

Deploy and consume ZIP files from Maven

Learn how to deploy ZIP files to Maven and consume them in an Octopus project.

Lessons learned implementing database deployments

Exploring the pitfalls of implementing database deployments

Resetting RavenDB indexes

Sometimes in order to troubleshoot Octopus, you'll need to reset your RavenDB indexes.

Octopus 2.0 Task Output: RFC

The tasks screen will get an update in Octopus 2.0. Here are some mockups.

Maven repositories explained

Learn how Maven repositories are structured and how to access artifacts stored in them.

Octopus 2.0 UI: Angular, Grunt and responsiveness

Some screenshots of the Octopus 2.0 progress

Documentation

Deploying Node applications to Linux

Learn how to package and deploy a Node.js application to a Linux deployment target over an SSH connection.

Subscription webhook notifications

Set up a Slack notification from a subscription

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions can leverage the Octopus CLI to pack, build, push, and create releases for Octopus Deploy.

Security

Security considerations for Octopus Administrators.

Authentication providers

Authentication options for Octopus Deploy including our internal provider, Active Directory, Azure AD, Okta, and GoogleApps.

Active Directory authentication

Octopus Deploy can use Windows credentials to identify users.

Specify a custom container for AD authentication

How to specifying a custom container to use for AD Authentication.

Moving your Octopus Server to another Active Directory domain

the steps and considerations to move your Octopus Server from one Active Directory domain to another.

Troubleshooting Active Directory integration

Information on troubleshooting common Active Directory integration issues.

Authentication automation with OctopusDSC

Authentication automation resources with OctopusDSC.

Automatic user creation

User can be automatically created using some providers.

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