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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.Task log UI improvements
Octopus 2024.2 includes enhancements to the deployment log including a modern visual design, performance improvements, and intelligent log rendering.Explore a live Octopus Deploy server
We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instanceHalibut: 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/MonoOctopus Deploy vs. Puppet/Chef
What's the difference between Octopus and Puppet/Chef?Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?
What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?RFC: Improving the Create Release screen
A mockup of a new design for the create release screenAt the helm with Michael Richardson
This post opens a series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on improve the product, and more. First is Michael Richardson, our original product management leader.What is shadow IT?
When we talk about Shadow IT, we're talking about IT resources that an organization doesn't have visibility on. Find out how this affects your business, and how runbooks can help.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.Licensing and support/maintenance changes
Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0Deploying AWS Lambdas across environments
Learn how to progress Lambda deployments across environments using CloudFormationHow 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 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.How High Availability Works
Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)
Read about our security posture in real termsDynamic 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.Azure targets
Configure your Azure infrastructureInstallation Guidelines
Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.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.Performance
Octopus is all about reliable and repeatable deployments, but that doesn't mean it has to be slow. This page will help you tune your Octopus installation for the best performance in your scenario.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.