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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 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.Ask Octopus Episode 22-24 - Different package for different step templates, moving Octopus & Octopus Server version comparison
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.Creating EC2 instance in AWS with CloudFormation
Learn how to create Windows and Linux EC2 instances in AWS with example CloudFormation templatesCreating a Selenium WebDriver test framework
Learn how to create a WebDriver project in Java with this blog series.A first look at Jenkins X
Jenkins X is a complete mental shift from the traditional role of a CI server. In this post, we take a high-level look at Jenkins X and highlight why you need to appreciate it on its own terms.Installing Tentacles with DSC in AWS CloudFormation templates
Learn how to configure a target work Worker Tentacle when creating a new EC2 instance with CloudFormation.Creating an EC2 Octopus Worker with CloudFormation
Learn how to deploy an EC2 configured as an Octopus Worker via a CloudFormation template.Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster
More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.Deploying to Google Cloud Functions
Learn how to deploy functions to the Google Cloud Platform.Authenticate to Azure with Golang
Authenticating to a cloud platform with the different SDK can be extremely different. In this post, you learn how to authenticate to Azure with Go.Licensing and support/maintenance changes
Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0How 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.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.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.Mixing Kubernetes Roles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoles, and ClusterBindings
This post looks at the results of mixing the various roles and bindings available in KubernetesUnsupported versions of Windows and .NET
Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.
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Dynamic Worker pools
Dynamic Worker pools are used in our cloud product to dynamically create and assign workers to running tasks. This page describes how dynamic worker pools work.Enable web request logging
How to enable web request logging to help the Octopus team analyze usage patterns and detecting performance problems.Upgrading from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5
Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5.API
The Insights APICertificate variables
Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the valueDelete releases
Deletes a range of releasesSecurity Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)
Read about our security posture in real termsProviding database performance metrics
How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.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 errorRetention policy Tentacle cleanup and troubleshooting
Reviewing and troubleshooting why some files aren't cleaned up by Octopus retention policies.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.