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Ask Octopus Episodes 37-39 - Diagnostic logging, restarting a failed upgrade & deployment channels with child projects.

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

October Community Roundup

A summary of blogs and community events for October 2015

Automating developer machine setup with Chocolatey

Learn how to automate a developer machine setup using Chocolatey

Octopus 1.4 with updating variables, cloning projects and other fixes

Octopus 1.4 includes the ability to update release variables, clone projects and disabling machines.

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.

Introducing Octopus security advisories

Updating the way we keep our customers informed about product security

Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

Synchronizing projects in managed spaces

Learn how to implement the full lifecycle of projects created as part of the enterprise patterns

OctoPack 3.0

Better TFS support, and no need to check in OctoPack to source control

Using Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

Using Cake’s C# makefiles to script your application build process.

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.

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

New Home for Octopus Documentation

After our documentation hosting provider went under, we decided to change where we host our docs.

How we create the Tentacle Army

Before a release of Octopus is published we fire up the Tentacle Army and attempt to break the release. At the moment the Tentacle Army consists of 800 tentacles located in Singapore and Brazil, regions chosen for their high region-to-region latency.

On the naming of “DevOps Engineers”

Why is this job title so controversial? What's a better option?

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

How recent SHA1 collision attack discoveries impact Octopus, and PowerShell scripts to detect if you use SHA1 certificates

Kubernetes deployments made easy - Octopus Deploy 2018.9

Kubernetes deployments made easy! Octopus 2018.9 includes our first-class support for Kubernetes Deployments including infrastructure support for Kubenetes Clusters and rich deployment steps to simplify your deployment process.

My First Year Working at Octopus

Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.

MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud 1.0

Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud, the SaaS version of Octopus, and how it shaped our plans for Octopus Cloud 2.0.

Platform Engineering should be part of DevOps

Find out why Platform Engineering is more likely to succeed with DevOps than without it.

Supporting Octopus Deploy customers

Over the last few years we've doubled down on providing the best support possible for our customers.
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Documentation

Customizing an Octopus Server extension

Octopus Deploy built-in server extensions are available on GitHub and can be forked and customized.

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Authoring an Octopus Server extension

Technical details of how to author an Octopus Server extension.

Octopus CLI Global Tool

Octopus CLI installation

Isolated Octopus Servers

Working with isolated Octopus Servers due to infrastructure or governance requirements.

SHA1 "Shattered" collision and Octopus Deploy

How the SHA1 "Shattered" Collision impacts Octopus Deploy

Azure Cloud Service targets

Azure Cloud Service deployment targets allow you to reference existing classic Cloud Services in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

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