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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 2020.1: Dark mode and better Linux support

Octopus 2020.1 includes dark mode support, AWS and Azure built-in steps are now cross-platform, the Octopus CLI is now available via Homebrew, Yum, and APT and enviroment specific worker pools.

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.

Creating an EC2 Octopus Worker with CloudFormation

Learn how to deploy an EC2 configured as an Octopus Worker via a CloudFormation template.

Deploying ASP.NET Core to Linux using Octopus

A walk-through of deploying an ASP.NET Core application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Octopus Deploy

Octopus Tentacle on ARM/ARM64

Tentacle now supports ARM/ARM64 hardware

Managing Ansible Deployments with Octopus

Learn how to deploy Ansible scripts from Octopus

How to install Jenkins on Windows and Linux

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via the traditional installers.

Managing AWS costs with Instance Scheduler

Learn how to deploy and configure the Instance Scheduler to shutdown unused AWS resources.

Using the Octopus API with Bash and jq

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

Spring Boot as a Service

Learn how to deploy Spring Boot fully executable JAR files to EC2 Linux instances as services

Smoke testing your infrastructure with runbooks

Learn how to use runbooks to perform high level smoke tests against your applications and infrastructure.

Tips for building custom execution containers

Tips and tricks to make it easier to build and maintain custom execution containers.

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x is easier than you think

Why and how to upgrade from Octopus 3.x.

Deploying applications to Kubernetes with Octopus

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

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

Introducing long-term Support for Octopus Server

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

At the helm with Bob Walker

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Bob Walker, our Technical Director of Customer Success.

Creating AMI mappings for CloudFormation

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

Calculating DORA metrics with Runbooks

Learn how to measure the performance of your deployments using the DORA metrics and a custom runbook.

Mixing Keys in Tomcat

Learn how to configure Tomcat to support both RSA and ECDSA certificates on a single HTTPS port.

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.

Configuring Jenkins in Azure and deploying with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Jenkins instance in Azure and deploy with Octopus.
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Documentation

Updating Linux

With Octopus Deploy you can update and patch Linux machines with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Install NGINX

With Octopus Deploy you can install NGINX with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Installing Apache

With Octopus Deploy you can install Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Linux Tentacle

How to install and configure Octopus Tentacles on Linux Servers in either listening or polling mode.

Bamboo

Octopus Deploy and Bamboo can work together to make automated, continuous delivery easy.

Register SSH target

An example script to register an SSH target using the REST API.

Amazon S3 Create Bucket

Create a new bucket in Amazon S3.

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