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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.

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 12 - Environment Approval Gates, Worker Pools Per Environment

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.

OctoPack 3.0

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

Encrypting connection strings in Web.config

Encrypting connection strings section in Web.config with Octopus Deploy

KCDC and NDC 2013: Jeff French on TeamCity and Octopus Deploy

Jeff French has a great presentation coming up on continuous delivery of complex applications with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, which he'll be doing at the KCDC and NDC 2013.

ASP.NET Core 1 build & deployment pipelines with TeamCity and Octopus

ASP.NET Core 1 and the dotnet CLI makes publishing applications a first-class feature of the platform. This post explains how to hook it into your build & deployment pipeline.

Future of Deployment: Nano Server and .NET Core

Nano Server is an extremely small version of Windows Server. .NET Core is a small version of the .NET runtime. Together, I believe they are the future of how applications will run in production.

What does Microsoft deprecating Azure Service Management APIs mean for Octopus Users?

As Azure begin to deprecate their Azure Service Management APIs, this has knock-on effects for Octopus Users. Although Cloud Service deployments will keep working, Azure Certificate Management Accounts will no longer provide such a rich UX experience.

Adding notifications for every production deployment

An introductory guide to using subscriptions with webhooks.

Ask Octopus Episode 10 - Subscriptions, System Security and Redeploy Failed Releases

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 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.

Ask Octopus Episode 9 - Composite Step Templates, Maintenance Process and Environment Templates

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 11 - Automatically Cancel Tasks, Progression Prevention and Compliance

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.

How to use PowerShell script modules... on Linux

Learn how to use your library of PowerShell script modules on Linux

Azure Cloud Deployments with Octopus

Kicking off our Azure Cloud Deployments with Octopus blog series looking at the breadth of options currently available.

Bitbucket Pipelines - Octo.exe Container Redux

Deployments from Bitbucket to Octopus is now easier when using Containers
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Documentation

Retention policies

Retention policies allow you to specify the releases, packages and files you want to keep as well as the ones you want cleaned up.

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Allow release progression

Allows a release to progress to next phase

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

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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