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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.

Introducing the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Octopus 2020.3 introduces the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Deploying Azure Functions with Octopus Deploy

Azure Functions can be deployed with Octopus Deploy using Web App deployment steps

Using Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

This post shows you how to use Operations Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.

Building trust in an automated database deployment process

Learn techniques to build trust in your automated database deployment process and gain confidence in every part of the process.

Farmer: Simpler ARM deployments with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Farmer to create and deploy ARM templates with Octopus Deploy

Common deployment patterns and how to use them in Octopus

Deployment patterns are important to any development pipeline. This post looks at some common deployment patterns and explains how to set them up in Octopus.

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.

Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET

Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.

Using Azure Key Vault with Octopus

Introducing a new step template to allow secrets stored in Azure Key Vault to be used in deployments or runbooks.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - UX and UI

The details behind the biggest change to the Octopus user interface and user experience since it's original launch!

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Deploy Release Page Redesign

The Deploy Release page has been redesigned as part of Octopus version 4.0

10 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments

The 10 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments is a comprehensive guide to building a repeatable deployment pipeline from Octopus to Kubernetes. Download the ebook.

Defining Tomcat context paths

Learn how Tomcat defines the context path of your web application.

Config as Code: What is it and how is it beneficial?

Learn about the benefits of Config as Code and some of the considerations when implementing Config as Code.
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Documentation

Linux targets

Configuring Linux servers as deployment targets in Octopus.

Octopus Server in Kubernetes

Octopus can be installed into a Kubernetes cluster running the Octopus Server Linux container, optionally leveraging High Availability (HA).

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.

Create Network Load Balancer

With runbooks, you can automate the creation of a Network Load Balancer to distribute traffic among virtual machine instances in GCP.

Find unused projects

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

Environment permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to a specific permission for a specific environment.

Auto Scaling High Availability Nodes

What to consider if you want to use auto-scaling technology to scale out your Octopus Server High Availability Cluster automatically.

How to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

A how-to guide on how to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

Add Azure Active Directory login to users

An example script to add Azure Active Directory login details to Octopus user accounts.

Azure

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy software to your Windows servers, Linux servers, or cloud regions.

Google cloud accounts

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy infrastructure to GCP and run scripts against the gcloud CLI.

SSH key pair account

SSH key pair accounts allow you to securely authenticate with SSH targets.

Token account

Add token accounts to Octopus.

Username and password accounts

Username and Password Accounts allow you securely authenticate with different services.

Google cloud account variables

Create a Google cloud account variable to use it in Google Cloud deployment steps

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