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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.

Database migrations lessons learned

Learn about database migrations and some lessons learned from using them in the Octopus Deploy codebase.

SQL Server deployment options for Octopus Deploy

A brief summary of the most popular SQL Server deployment tools used with Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy sponsors the .NET Foundation

Octopus Deploy announces corporate sponsorship for the .NET Foundation

How we use SQL Server as a Document Store

18 months ago we switched from RavenDB to SQL Server, but we kept using SQL as if it were a document store. This post goes into some detail about how our database works.

Defining a target architecture

How to approach defining a target architecture for your software systems.

How we are using SQL Server in Octopus 3.0

Octopus 3.0 will be built on top of SQL Server. In this post I discuss how we'll be using SQL Server, the editions we support, and high availability plans.

Config as Code and persistence ignorance

Read about the Core Platform team’s experience with persistence ignorance while developing the new Config as Code feature.

RFC - Multitenancy - Take 2

Request for comments on better support for multi-tenant deployments in Octopus Deploy with Tenant as a first-class concept

WinOps 2019 - Octopus talk and workshop

We’re at WinOps 2019, and we’re running a workshop on Turbocharging your CI/CD pipeline and a talk on Turbocharging Azure DevOps with Octopus Deploy.

Installing Minikube on Windows

Learn how to get a test Kubernetes environment on Windows with Minikube

Octopus will be at DevOps Days London 2019

Octopus is a silver sponsor of this years DevOps Days London.

Octopus Deploy 3.3

What's new in Octopus Deploy 3.3

Deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Octopus

This blog post looks at the process of deploying a .NET Core application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Three ways to use custom Terraform plugins

Terraform does not yet support repositories for custom plugins, but here are three ways to utilize your custom plugins.

Octopus will be at Code Conf 2019

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

Exploring Istio by example

In this post, we look at a very simple sample application that we’ll use to explore the functionality of Istio.

What are the benefits of using NGINX Unit?

What features does NGINX Unit have that make it an attractive solution for modern deployments?

Halibut: a secure communication stack for .NET/Mono

A code project article written recently about Halibut, which is a lightweight secure alternative to WCF, written for .NET/Mono

Automated blue/green database deployments

Learn some techniques for automating database deployments when using a blue/green deployment strategy.

Better Octopus Integration with Azure DevOps

We recently updated our Azure DevOps extension, and it has some great new features that can improve your delivery pipeline.

Running SQL Server Developer in a Linux-based Docker Container

How to run SQL Server Developer in a Linux-based Docker container.

BuildDeploySupport: Sharing PowerShell scripts in Octopus

A guest blog post by Jonathan Goldman on his open source project that makes it easier to share PowerShell scripts in Octopus projects.

Write your own PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) module

How to write your own PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) module

Bootstrap Tentacle installation with Powershell DSC

Install and configure Tentacles using the power of Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Integrating OAuth with Kubernetes

Integrating Google OAuth into a Kubernetes cluster.

Creating an EKS cluster with eksctl

Creating EKS clusters is now a trivial task with eksctl. In this post, we’ll learn how to create a cluster and integrate it with Octopus.

Running SQL Server Developer in a Windows-based Docker Container

SQL Server can run in a Windows-based docker container, how can developers leverage that on their development machines?
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