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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.

Using the Octopus API with Bash and jq

Learn how to work with the Octopus API using Bash and jq.

How to deploy from Minecraft with Octopus Deploy

Imagine a world where deployments were simple. You could push a button in your favorite video game and your latest release was deployed to production.

October Community Roundup

A summary of blogs and community events for October 2015

What's new in Octopus 2.1

Built-in NuGet repository, guest access, variable improvements and multiple instance management

Lessons learned porting Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1

We ported Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1 to unlock the ability to run on Linux, Docker Containers, and Kubernetes. This post shares lessons learned along the way.

Identifying AWS shadow IT resources

As part of our series on Octopus Runbooks, learn how to find unmanaged resources in AWS using runbooks.

Creating AMI mappings for CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to create region AMI mappings for use with CloudFormation templates.

RFC: Octopus Reactions - Integration toolkit

A proposal for a feature we're calling Reactions. A set of tools to enable event based integration with a wide range of third party products. We'd love you to have your say!

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Generating instance types lists for CloudFormation

As part of our series on Runbooks, learn how to generate a list of available instance types to include in CloudFormation templates.

Integrating docker-compose steps with Octopus Deploy

Performing docker-compose is easy with the new script running capabilities

Octopus Workers and Performance

Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performance

Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore

An adventure in build tools and Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications

Octopus 2018.8 Release

Octopus 2018.8 - Script Step Packages and Kubernetes Alpha

Packages in Script Steps

As of Octopus 2018.8 Script Steps will have the ability to reference packages

Introducing long-term Support for Octopus Server

In Q4 2018 we will be shipping our first release of Octopus Server with long-term support.

Deploying an AWS ECS task using containers from ECR

Deployments to AWS ECS using containers from ECR are now possible using the new multi-package feature of Octopus script steps

Deploying applications to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a multi-environment Kubernetes cluster and deploy an application to it.

Running manual tests against cloud infrastructure deployed by Octopus

Learn how to run tests against infrastructure that was previously deployed by Octopus.

Real Life DevOps - Representing Internal Environment Names With Target Roles

We can use Target Roles to track tenant specific environment names while using combined Dev / Test / Prod environments in Octopus.

Octopus presenting at Redgate's SQL in the City Summit

Bob Walker and Derek Campbell will be presenting at Redgate's SQL in the City Summit this month in London and Chicago on how database DevOps can help you stay ahead of the competition.

Selenium series: headless browsers

In this post, we learn how to run tests against headless browsers.

Selenium series: adding the BrowserMob proxy

In this post, we learn how to add a proxy to the WebDriver tests.
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Documentation

Troubleshooting OctoPack

Troubleshooting NuGet packages and Octopack

List deployments to environment

An example script to retrieve a list of deployments to an environment

Coordinating multiple projects

Script examples for working with data from multiple projects.

Project coordination code samples

Project coordination guide code samples that show how to perform various tasks covered in the guide.

List users

An example script to list all users in an Octopus instance.

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