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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.

Selenium series: headless browsers

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

Selenium series: Launching Cucumber tests

In this post, we launch a Cucumber test inside a Lambda

Selenium series: Asynchronous Lambdas

In this post, we learn how to launch Lambdas asynchronously from API Gateway

Selenium series: Emailing the results

In this post, we send the results of a Cucumber test via email

Selenium series: The first WebDriver test

In this post, we create the first WebDriver tests against Chrome and Firefox.

Selenium series: Creating the framework

In this post, we start creating the framework for our WebDriver test classes.

Selenium series: A sample web page

In this post, we create a sample web page to run some tests against.

Selenium series: finding elements by XPaths and CSS selectors

In this post, we learn how to locate elements in a HTML page via CSS Selectors and XPaths.

Selenium series: implicit and explicit waits

In this post, we learn the strategies WebDriver uses to interact with dynamic elements in web pages.

Selenium series: mixing implicit and explicit waits

In this post, we learn how implicit and explicit waits can interfere with each other.

Selenium series: simplified element location

In this post, we learn how to remove explicit element searches by ID, XPath, and CSS selectors in favor of generic locators.

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

Learn how to create a WebDriver project in Java with this blog series.

Kubernetes deployments made easy - Octopus Deploy 2018.9

Kubernetes deployments made easy! Octopus 2018.9 includes our first-class support for Kubernetes Deployments including infrastructure support for Kubenetes Clusters and rich deployment steps to simplify your deployment process.

Octopus Deploy 3.1 Pre-Release

What's new in Octopus Deploy 3.1

Deploying TeamCity to Kubernetes using Octopus Deploy

Learn how to spin up a build server on demand using Octopus Deploy and Kubernetes

Deploy to Oracle Database using Octopus Deploy and Redgate

Octopus Deploy supports many database tools. Follow along as we get a CI/CD pipeline built to deploy a database change to an Oracle Database

Performing canary deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to use the Voyager ingress controller to implement canary deployments in Kubernetes

Improvements to Adding a Deployment Target Experience and Interface

Learn about some recent UI changes around deployment targets and why we made them.

Octopus presenting at WinOps 2018 London

Derek Campbell will be presenting at the WinOps 2018 event this month in London on how Octopus Deploy enables a successful DevOps journey.

Documentation

Docker Container Registry

A Docker Registry is treated in Octopus Deploy as a feed that supplies images that are run as containers on a Docker Engine host.

Deployment targets

How to configure deployment targets in Octopus

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Azure Cloud Service targets

Azure Cloud Service deployment targets allow you to reference existing classic Cloud Services in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Azure Service Fabric cluster targets

Azure Service Fabric Cluster deployment targets allow you to reference existing Service Fabric Cluster apps that are available in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Azure Web App targets

Azure Web App deployment targets allow you to reference existing Web Apps in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Cloud regions

Cloud regions deployment targets allow steps to be executed multiple times to support deploying cloud applications in numerous geographic regions.

Dynamic infrastructure

Octopus resources created in cloud providers can also be modeled in Octopus using service messages and scripts, which form part of dynamic infrastructure.

Create Azure Service Principal account command

New-OctopusAzureServicePrincipalAccount allows you to create an Azure Service Principal account in Octopus from within a running deployment

Create Azure Cloud Service target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Cloud Service target

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