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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.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.UI design for eventual consistency
UI design for eventual consistencyHow 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.'Tis the week before Christmas...
It's nearly the holidays, so it's a great time to reflect on Octopus's year.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.Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?
What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?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.How to use PowerShell script modules... on Linux
Learn how to use your library of PowerShell script modules on LinuxAzure Cloud Deployments with Octopus
Kicking off our Azure Cloud Deployments with Octopus blog series looking at the breadth of options currently available.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.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.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.Explore a live Octopus Deploy server
We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instanceOctopus Deploy vs. Puppet/Chef
What's the difference between Octopus and Puppet/Chef?
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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 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 infrastructureSamples instance
View real-world deployment and runbook examples in our Octopus Cloud samples instance - https://samples.octopus.appAzure 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.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.