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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 43-45 - LTS 2019.6, restarting VMs during deployments & Automatic Release Creation.
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.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.Mapping manual deployments with Octopus Deploy
Find out how to map your manual deployments to create a template that helps you start your automation journey.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.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/MonoASP.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.Octopus 1.4 with updating variables, cloning projects and other fixes
Octopus 1.4 includes the ability to update release variables, clone projects and disabling machines.Webinar, 28th March: What's new in Octopus 1.5
I'll be hosting a webinar to demonstrate the new features in Octopus 1.5: Azure deployments, FTP/FTPS, ScriptCS and moreExplore a live Octopus Deploy server
We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instanceOctopus Deploy vs. Puppet/Chef
What's the difference between Octopus and Puppet/Chef?Structured Logging with Seq
Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logsAsk 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 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.
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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 termsCapture a crash dump
How to capture a crash dump to help the Octopus team diagnose problems when something unexpected happens.Variable filters
Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.Azure targets
Configure your Azure infrastructureAzure 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.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.