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Ask Octopus Episode 34-36 - Server 2008 EOL, Project Templates for specific scenarios & binding Variables to multiple roles

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.

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 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.

Ask Octopus Episode 28-30 - JSON configuration substitution, Octopus server as cattle & Active Directory breaking changes.

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

DDD Brisbane 2013

OctoPack 2.0.24

Find out what's new in the latest OctoPack release

Webinar - DevOps Deep Dive

All your DevOps questions answered

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Octopus Deploy 2.0 API changes - RFC

For Octopus Deploy 2.0 we'll be making some improvements to the HTTP API, as well as documenting it on GitHub.

Have you designed your application for deployment?

Strategies and ideas to simplify the deployment process of applications.

Manually push build information to Octopus

This post describes how to manually push build information to Octopus so you can see your commits and issues/work items alongside your deployments.

DORA metrics - The predictive link between DevOps practice and business outcomes

What are the DORA metrics? Why do they matter? How can you use them to drive improvement?

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

Octopus 2021 Q2: Migrate to the cloud with Octopus Deploy

Octopus 2021 Q2: Export/Import Projects EAP, Azure Zip Deploy, GitHub Actions, Terraform integration and Octopus Cloud improvements.

Lessons learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Some of the lessons I learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

Learn how to create a WebDriver project in Java with this blog series.

Webinar - The Right Way to Integrate Octopus Deploy with Azure Pipelines

Learn how to create your own end-to-end model for implementing an automated DevOps pipeline.

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.

In Octopus 3.0, we're switching from RavenDB to SQL Server

Docker Engine in Octopus Deploy

Simple Docker Engine commands are now available in Octopus Deploy for testing and feedback

The ultimate guide to rolling deployments

What are rolling deployments and why are they useful? This post covers the rolling deployment pattern and practical examples of how to implement it with different tooling.

Octopus will be at Code Conf 2019

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

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

July Community Roundup

Documentation

JSON formatted output

Formatting output from the Octopus CLI

Java error messages and troubleshooting

Java deployment steps include a number of unique error codes that may be displayed in the output if there was an error

Trend indicators

Insights helps spot performance trends

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

Docker run with networking

This guide demonstrates the basic functionality provided by the Octopus Docker steps.

API

The Insights API

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