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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.

PowerShell and IIS: 20 practical examples

Real-world examples tested on Windows 2008 R2 through to 2016. Creating sites, configuring application pools, and examples in both the old WebAdministration module and the newer IISAdministration module.

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.

Octopus Deploy + TeamCity Webinar - Feb 12

DDD Brisbane 2013

Chicago ALM user group: Automating deployments with Octopus Deploy

Ian Paullin will be talking about Octopus at the Chicago ALM user group on May 21st

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

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

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.

Whitepaper: Benefits of Deployment Automation

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Ask Octopus Episode 25-27 - Centralized Logging, Worker working directory contents & Octopus/TeamCity Integration

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.

Octopus 2020.5: Solid improvements and Config as Code update

Octopus 2020.5 introduces support for self-signed certificates, GitHub container registry support, Kubernetes and Terraform improvements and more.

Automated deployment with TFS Team Build and Octopus Deploy

How Octopus 3.0 blows 2.6 out of the water

The Octopus Deploy 3.0 time saver: delta compression

Azure Virtual Machine Extension

Announcing the re-release of the Azure Virtual Machine extension to install Tentacle's on your Cloud VMs

Using classes in custom step templates

Learn how to implement a class in a custom step template.

RFC: X.509 Certificate Management

Request For Comment on proposed X.509 Certificate Management

Announcing Ask Octopus Video Series

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.

Selenium series: Firefox debugging tricks

In this post, we learn some tricks to debugging Firefox JavaScript stack traces.

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.

June Community Roundup

Documentation

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

JSON formatted output

Formatting output from the Octopus CLI

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via an ARM template

How to install the Tentacle VM extension using an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template

Subscriptions

Subscriptions allow you to subscribe to events that are happening within Octopus, so you can be notified when events have occurred and react accordingly.

Community edition

Server and Cloud community edition limits

How High Availability Works

Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.

Certificate variables

Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the value

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