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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.

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

Ask Octopus Episodes 43-45 - LTS 2019.6, restarting VMs during deployments & Automatic Release Creation.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have received and how we went about solving them.

Script Parameters

Octopus 3.3.21 introduces ability to pass parameters to scripts.

OctoPack 2.0.24

Find out what's new in the latest OctoPack release

Webinar - Starting the DevOps Journey

Taking a DevOps approach and paving the way for staying ahead in business

Webinar - DevOps Deep Dive

All your DevOps questions answered

Previous deployments

In 2.5.4 we added the ability to more easily view previous deployments

Manually push build information to Octopus

This post describes how to manually push build information to Octopus so you can see your commits and issues/work items alongside your deployments.

Still deploying manually? What you're missing

By automating deployments, they become less painful and more reliable, which allows you to make them more frequently.

What is an un-tenanted deployment in 3.4?

Octopus 3.4 introduces multi-tenant deployments to allow you to deploy your releases to the same environment within the context of different tenants! So what happens if you don't want to deploy a release to a tenant?

Ask Octopus Episodes 37-39 - Diagnostic logging, restarting a failed upgrade & deployment channels with child projects.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have received and how we went about solving them.

Ask Octopus Episodes 40-42 - Data Migration, installing the Linux Tentacle & connecting on-premise servers to Octopus Cloud.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have received and how we went about solving them.

Ask Octopus Episode 31-33 - Incremental changes, using Octopus.Client with different Spaces and Auto Scaling groups with Octopus Deploy

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten and how we went about solving them.

Ask Octopus Episode 34-36 - Server 2008 EOL, Project Templates for specific scenarios & binding Variables to multiple roles

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have received and how we went about solving them.

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off with links to posts talking about new feature deep dives and the decisions that went in to building them.

Changing website port on each deployment

Blue/green style deployments by varying the port number between each deployment

What's new in the Octopus navigation UI

An overview of the changes brought about by our navigation update.

Octopus 3.1 will require .NET 4.5

Octopus and Tentacle have always been built against .NET 4.0, but from Octopus 3.1 onwards we'll be building against .NET 4.5.

Azure changes in 3.1

We recently made big changes to deployment targets and Azure cloud services in Octopus 3.0, and it turns out we got our design wrong. In 3.1, we'll be reverting to the 2.6-era way of deploying cloud services. This change will also affect the way we deploy Azure web apps.
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Documentation

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

Create a new scheduled runbook trigger

An example script to create and publish a new runbook scheduled trigger

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions can leverage the Octopus CLI to pack, build, push, and create releases for Octopus Deploy.

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