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Automating support emails with Octopus Runbooks

You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.

Previous deployments

In 2.5.4 we added the ability to more easily view previous deployments

Still deploying manually? What you're missing

By automating deployments, they become less painful and more reliable, which allows you to make them more frequently.

Octopus Deploy in the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar

How we work - 2016 edition

An update on how we work as a team to build and support Octopus.

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?

IIS and Windows Service Steps including Virtual Directory support

We have added support for deploying to Virtual Directories and new specific deployment steps for IIS and Windows Services

%TEMP% has different values for a Windows Service running as Local System

How ioGlobal use Octopus Deploy

RFC: X.509 Certificate Management

Request For Comment on proposed X.509 Certificate Management

New Home for Octopus Documentation

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

Do you build your binaries once?

Octopus.Client goes Open Source

Octopus.Client and Sampler are now Open Source and versioned using SemVer. Octopus.Client and Octo.exe are now .NET Core and have a Async API.

Defining variables in a multi-tenant world

Exploring how to define variables in a multi-tenant world.

Improvements to Adding a Deployment Target Experience and Interface

Learn about some recent UI changes around deployment targets and why we made them.

The Evolution of Auto-Deployments and Event-Sourcing

Octopus 3.4 introduces elastic and transient environments and this post explores the evolution of auto-deployments in this context.

'Tis the week before Christmas...

It's nearly the holidays, so it's a great time to reflect on Octopus's year.

Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

A guest post from Daniel Nolan of ReadyRoll on Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

Octopus Deploy 3.5: Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Introducing Octopus Deploy 3.5, with new features including Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Fun with output variables

5 Remote Desktop Alternatives

Five alternative Remote Desktop tools

Trying Raw Octopus

Raw scripting and Package transfers make SSH deployments even easier when Calamari or Mono is not an option

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Deploy Release Page Redesign

The Deploy Release page has been redesigned as part of Octopus version 4.0

Docker Engine in Octopus Deploy

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

How does Octopus handle rollbacks?

Octopus Deploy High Availability

Octopus: HA makes it possible to set up a high performance, reliable Octopus Deploy cluster. This post explains the architecture, and the kinds of scenarios it does and doesn't support.

Octopus integration with TFS Build vNext

RFC: Composite Step Templates

Combine multiple step templates together into a single importable block

Documentation

Deploying to a Release Ring

Deploy a release based on tenant tag.

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle.

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