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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.

Octopus will be at Code Conf 2019

Octopus are silver sponsors of Code Conf in Copenhagen this year.

Learn how to call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

A dive into the Jenkins REST API, with examples in PowerShell for creating new jobs

Selenium series: populating the Git repo

In this post, we learn how to push our code to GitHub.

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.

Enabling Parallel Deployments in Tomcat with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy multiple versions of your web applications to Tomcat through Octopus Deploy

Self-service runbooks for operations teams

Learn about self-service runbooks and how they benefit operations teams

Breaking up monolithic deployments

Learn how to break up a large process into smaller deployable components

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Terraform and Octopus Deploy

In this blog post, I demonstrate using Infrastructure as code from Terraform and Octopus Deploy to create resources and services in Azure.

Kubernetes 1.20 is deprecating Docker Runtime: What does this mean?

With the news that Kubernetes 1.20 is deprecating Docker, there has been a lot of panic. This blog post explains what's happening and what you can do to solve the problem.

Octopus Deploy on Docker quickstart

Learn how to configure Octopus Deploy to run on Docker on your local computer in just five minutes.

Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part one

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi.

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part two

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy.

Create an AKS Cluster with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy

Learn how to create an Azure Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) using Pulumi, Python, and Octopus Deploy

Our most popular webinars in 2020

Join us as we list out our favorite webinars of 2020.

On the naming of “DevOps Engineers”

Why is this job title so controversial? What's a better option?

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

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

Call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

Learn how to call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x to the latest version

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 3.x to the latest version

Upgrading from Octopus 4.x / 2018.x to latest version

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 4.x or 2018.x to the latest version

Upgrading major releases of Octopus Deploy

Information on how to upgrade major releases of Octopus Deploy.

Upgrading minor and patch releases of Octopus Deploy

Information on how to upgrade major releases of Octopus Deploy.

Reporting

Octopus reporting makes it easy to produce reports over your deployment history, using your preferred reporting tools.

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.

Retention policy Tentacle cleanup and troubleshooting

Reviewing and troubleshooting why some files aren't cleaned up by Octopus retention policies.

Upgrading Octopus

Everything you need to know about upgrading Octopus to a newer version.

Troubleshooting Access Denied Starting Http Listener

A guide for troubleshooting start up error "Access Denied starting HTTP Listener"

Add domain teams

An example script that adds teams from a new domain to existing Octopus teams.

Change users domain

An example script that changes an Octopus user's Active Directory domain assignment.

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