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The difference between day-0, day-1, and day-2 operations

We break down the difference between the 3 major phases of operations in DevOps.

Octopus will be at DevOps Days London 2019

Octopus is a silver sponsor of this years DevOps Days London.

Scheduled Recurring Deployments RFC

Scheduled recurring deployments is something that many other CI/CD tools provide out-of-the-box, and we think Octopus should support this functionality as well! This is a request-for-comments.

At the helm with Bob Walker

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Bob Walker, our Technical Director of Customer Success.

How to design an automated database deployment process

This article walks you through designing your ideal automated database deployment process.

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files with Octopus Deploy

The new DevOps performance clusters

Explains the changes and additions to performance clusters in The State of DevOps Report 2022.

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Octopus goes to conferences!

Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.

At the helm with Kyle Jackson

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Kyle Jackson, Security Operations Manager.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report.

Recurring Scheduled Deployments

We are introducing the ability to schedule recurring deployments.

At the helm with Trish Khoo

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Trish Khoo, our Director of Engineering

How to install and configure NGINX with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to create a repeatable deployment process for installing and configuring NGINX.

The 2024 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report, including an interesting plot twist for 2024.

How to build a PowerBI report for Octopus Deploy

Learn how to build PowerBI reports for Octopus Deploy that will show you deployment and runbook history in Octopus Deploy.

Octopus 2.0 Progress Update

Right now we're tidying up a few bugs to do a final hands-on preview release. Then we'll move to finishing any items needed for a private beta (beta 1)

Java CI/CD: Octopus, Jenkins, Java, Kubernetes, and the DevOps lifecycle

A blog series with practical examples on how Jenkins, Octopus, and Kubernetes fit into the DevOps lifecycle.
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Documentation

Release versioning

Select how the next release number is generated when creating a release.

Find unused projects

An example script that will find any project that hasn't had a release created in the previous days

Create a new scheduled runbook trigger

An example script to create and publish a new runbook scheduled trigger

Scheduled runbook triggers

Scheduled runbook triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your runbook that will cause an automatic runbook run to environments of your choosing.

Ongoing Maintenance

Guidelines and recommendations for ongoing maintenance with Octopus Deploy.

Trend indicators

Insights helps spot performance trends

Scheduled deployment triggers

Automatic deployment triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project that will cause an automatic deployment of a release into an environment.

Find unused targets

An example script the will find provide a list of targets being unused that might cause your target count to be inflated.

Minimize the data-migration time

Tips to minimize the time taken to migrate your data from Octopus 2.6 to 2018.10 LTS

How to Create an API Key

How to create an API key to interact with Octopus without the need for a username and password.

Auditing

Octopus Deploy captures audit information whenever significant events happen in the system.

Manual approvals

Recommendations and techniques for configuring manual approvals in an automated database deployment process.

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