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Ask Octopus Episode 7 - Delta Compression, Common Performance Issues, Deploy Production to UAT

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 8 - Script Console, Disable Child Projects, Performance Part II

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.

Octopus plugin for Jira - Better visibility for your software pipeline

Our new Octopus Deploy plugin for Jira makes it easy to plan, track and ship software with better end-to-end visibility of your software pipeline.

Mixing Keys in Tomcat

Learn how to configure Tomcat to support both RSA and ECDSA certificates on a single HTTPS port.

Automating support emails with Octopus Runbooks

You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.

Octopus Deploy 2019.10 - Flexible Linux deployments, PowerShell Core support, Operations Runbooks EAP

Octopus 2019.10 introduces Tentacle for Linux for flexible Linux deployments, built-in PowerShell Core support, simpler build information and releas notes, and early access to Runbooks for your operations teams.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Installing Jenkins From Scratch

Learn how to setup a basic Jenkins instance on Ubuntu.

Getting started with Bamboo

Learn how to install Bamboo, and build and push a Docker image to a container registry.

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 the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)

Depending on your Linux distro, you may have to build the APR from scratch to take advantage of the higher performance of the OpenSSL library in Tomcat.

Octopus 2021 Q4: Deploy to ECS with our guided UI step

Octopus 2021 Q4: Built-in support for Amazon ECS, a new TypeScript API client, and more integrations.

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments is now available. Plus new integrations and an acquisition.

Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

The first step towards safe production releases... safe dev/test deployments.

Installing Tomcat From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of Tomcat.

Database deployment automation using state-based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Setting up automated database deployments with state-based Redgate SQL change automation.

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.

Using the Azure custom script extension for complex installations

A deep dive into the Azure custom script extension for Windows VMs

Octopus Server 2019.12 with Long Term Support (LTS)

Octopus Server 2019.12 LTS is now available, and we recommend this release for self-hosted customers. This release includes Operations Runbooks, our official Jenkins plugin, PowerShell Core support, improved build server integration, and more.

Installing WildFly From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of WildFly.

Maven versions explained

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Maven versions. Learn how Maven treats different version strings.

SNI in Tomcat

SNI allows Tomcat to respond with multiple HTTPS certificates on on single port. This blog post looks at how to configure SNI.

WildFly S3 Domain Discovery

Learn how to use S3 buckets as a domain discovery mechanism in AWS.
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NGINX Web Server

Configuring NGINX as a web server or reverse proxy

SQL Server deployments

Automating deployments to SQL Server

Databases

Database deployments

TeamCity

Octopus Deploy and TeamCity can work together to make automated, continuous delivery easy.

Deploy to SQL Server using Redgate SQL change automation

Guide to configuring Octopus Deploy to deploy to SQL Server with Redgate SQL change automation

GitHub issue tracking integration

Configure GitHub issue tracking with Octopus.

Azure DevOps work item tracking integration

Configure Azure DevOps work item tracking with Octopus.

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