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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.Bulk deletion of Kubernetes resources
Learn how to delete Kubernetes resources like pods in bulk.Database deployments with Flyway and Octopus Execution Containers
Using Octopus Execution Containers and Flyway to deploy database changes.Have you designed your application for deployment?
Strategies and ideas to simplify the deployment process of applications.Octopus Deploy 2017 Roadmap
This post outlines our roadmap for 2017, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI
Enable tab completion for the Octopus CLI today! We'll also dive into how shell completion works in some popular shell environments.Paved versus golden paths in Platform Engineering
Find out the critical difference between paved paths and golden paths in Platform Engineering.Octopus Deploy 2018 Roadmap
This post outlines our roadmap for 2018, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.Reflections on 2017
A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company updateReusable YAML with CircleCI orbs
An overview of using and creating CircleCI Orbs.Taming the Kraken: How to protect your data
Learn how to keep your data safe when Octopus Deploy is deploying your database updates.Safe schema updates - Database delivery hell
This post opens a series about safe schema updates with a brief tour through Dante's 9 levels of Database Delivery Hell.DORA metrics - The predictive link between DevOps practice and business outcomes
What are the DORA metrics? Why do they matter? How can you use them to drive improvement?The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book
Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.The state of config file formats: XML vs. YAML vs. JSON vs. HCL
Learn about the different configuration file formats that are available and when you should use them.Java deployments to Tomcat with YAML and XML configuration file replacements
Learn how to take advantage of the XML, YAML, and Properties configuration file replacement when deploying Java applications.Introduction to HCL and HCL tooling
Learn about the different tooling you can use with HCL.Deploying to Oracle with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase
Learn how to deploy to Oracle using Octopus Deploy and Liquibase.Runbook lessons learned and recommendations
Recommendations from lessons learned on how to design and implement runbooksRFC: Azure Service Fabric support
This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus DeployIntegrating Octopus and Grafana
Learn how to use the Octopus Grafana datasource plugin to visualize your deployments
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Documentation
migrate
Imports data from an Octopus 2.6 backupMigrator import
Using the Octopus.Migrator.exe command line tool to import data from an Octopus 3.0 or newer directory.Install autocomplete
Install a shell auto-complete script into your shell profile, if they aren't already there. Supports pwsh, zsh, bash & powershell.Migration API
Octopus includes a migration API that provides the ability to back-up and restore parts of an Octopus Deploy instance remotely.Manual approvals
Recommendations and techniques for configuring manual approvals in an automated database deployment process.Automatic approvals
Recommendations and techniques on how to configure automatic approvals in an automated database deployment process.Create release
Using the Octopus CLI to create releases.Add Azure Active Directory login to users
An example script to add Azure Active Directory login details to Octopus user accounts.Environment recommendations
Environments form the backbone of your deployment pipeline. Here we provide some recommendations for configuring your environments to better prepare you to scale your Octopus Deploy instance up and out as you add more projects.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.