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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.

Building the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)

Depending on your Linux distro, you may have to build the APR from scratch to take advantage of the higher performance of the OpenSSL library in Tomcat.

Running unit tests in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in GitHub Actions and process the results.

Running end-to-end tests in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration, learn how to run end-to-end tests in GitHub Actions and capture the results.

Java CI/CD: From JAR to Docker

In this post, we learn how to convert a Java application to a Docker image.

Installing WildFly From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of WildFly.

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy to MongoDB using Liquibase.

Installing Tomcat From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of Tomcat.

Running unit tests in Jenkins

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in Jenkins and capture the results.

Using dynamic build agents to automate scaling in Jenkins

With some setup, Jenkins can automatically react to your processing needs, creating extra nodes to manage processes. This post explains 2 setup methods.

Deploying a Java web app with a MySQL backend through Octopus Deploy

This post demonstrates how to deploy a Java web application that uses a MySQL backend using Octopus Deploy.

Variable specificity and complexity

Variables can be scoped to multiple values. What's the simplest way to score them?

Reflections on 2017

A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update

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.

An Introduction to Hollow JARs

Learn what Hollow JARs are and how you can create them from you existing WAR files.

Why you should take a look at Kotlin's standard library

See how run, let, also and apply can improve your Kotlin code.

Octopus Deploy version changes for 2018

This post outlines our decision to change versioning strategy for Octopus Deploy to a style matching our iterative, monthly release cadence. It also describes how we arrived at our decision and how continuous delivery has fundamentally changed the way we plan, build, and release our software.

Octopus January Release 2018.1

What's new in Octopus 2018.1

Octopus React UI Permissions

Inside look into the React UI permissions

Continuous Delivery of Octopus

How we're delivering higher quality releases of Octopus Deploy in less time.

Coordinating Projects with the Deploy Release Step

We have introduced a new 'Deploy Release' step type which allows coordination between Octopus Projects

Deploy .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus

Learn how to deploy your .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus.
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Documentation

Credits

Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.

Process dumps

Octopus Server and Tentacle process dumps

Troubleshooting AWS transport level errors

A guide for troubleshooting AWS Transport Errors.

Log files

Octopus Server and Tentacle log file locations and details.

How to get a database backup and encrypt your Master Key

Guides the user on producing a database backup binary file (.bak) and encrypt their Master Key to provide us with.

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