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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.Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster
More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files
Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files with Octopus DeployThree ways to use custom Terraform plugins
Terraform does not yet support repositories for custom plugins, but here are three ways to utilize your custom plugins.How we work. Some recent lessons
Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed teamOctopus TL;DR - Performance Improvements
Once a week we have a short "TL;DR" meeting where team members present things that are interesting. We're going to start recording and posting portions of them to YouTube each week. This first one was about some performance improvements.Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET
Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.RFC: Docker integration
Request For Comment on proposed Docker integrationMy First Year Working at Octopus
Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.Octopus goes to conferences!
Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.SQL Server deployment options for Octopus Deploy
A brief summary of the most popular SQL Server deployment tools used with Octopus DeployPerceptual consistency in RavenDB
An approach to simulating consistency in RavenDBAnnouncing Ask Octopus Video Series
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Let's talk Licensing
Octopus deploy licenses, renewals and upgradesContinuous Delivery of Octopus
How we're delivering higher quality releases of Octopus Deploy in less time.PowerShell and IIS: 20 practical examples
Real-world examples tested on Windows 2008 R2 through to 2016. Creating sites, configuring application pools, and examples in both the old WebAdministration module and the newer IISAdministration module.Ask Octopus Episode 3 - Variable Run Conditions, Switching Auth Providers, Finding Deleted Releases
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Deployment process enhancements update
A quick overview of some of the enhancements that have been shipped over the last few months to make configuring your deployment process a little bit easierSafe schema updates - Continuous Integration is misunderstood
Learn about the principles that define Continuous Integration, and why you should avoid adopting specific practices, without knowing how to use them effectively.RFC: Monitoring and Service Management
What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?SNI in Tomcat
SNI allows Tomcat to respond with multiple HTTPS certificates on on single port. This blog post looks at how to configure SNI.
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Documentation
Upgrading from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5
Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5.SQL Server deployments
Automating deployments to SQL ServerLinux Tentacle
How to install and configure Octopus Tentacles on Linux Servers in either listening or polling mode.Recommended database permissions
Permission recommendations for database deployments.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.