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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.

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 16-18 - Stopping Deployments during Upgrade, Upgrading Octopus & Automatically Auditing your Projects

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.

Selenium series: running tests against BrowserStack

In this post, we learn how to run tests against the BrowserStack service.

Kubernetes deployments made easy - Octopus Deploy 2018.9

Kubernetes deployments made easy! Octopus 2018.9 includes our first-class support for Kubernetes Deployments including infrastructure support for Kubenetes Clusters and rich deployment steps to simplify your deployment process.

Octopus Deploy's response to Log4j

Learn how Octopus Deploy responded to the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).

Creating workers on a Kubernetes cluster

Learn how to create Octopus workers on a Kubernetes cluster using Octopus Deploy.

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.

RFC: X.509 Certificate Management

Request For Comment on proposed X.509 Certificate Management

How we use SQL Server as a Document Store

18 months ago we switched from RavenDB to SQL Server, but we kept using SQL as if it were a document store. This post goes into some detail about how our database works.

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.

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.

Azure Cloud Deployments with Octopus

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

How to use PowerShell script modules... on Linux

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

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.
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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 terms

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Certificate variables

Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the value

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.

Samples instance

View real-world deployment and runbook examples in our Octopus Cloud samples instance - https://samples.octopus.app

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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