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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.

Inside DevOps with Jason Dunnivant from Olo

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our first post features Jason Dunnivant, Release Engineer at Olo.

Introducing slugs in Config as Code

A brief overview of slugs, why we chose to them, and how they're used in Config as Code.

Config as Code: What is it and how is it beneficial?

Learn about the benefits of Config as Code and some of the considerations when implementing Config as Code.

Exploring the managed instance and space patterns

Learn how to implement the managed instance and space patterns in Octopus

Shaping Config as Code for variables

Learn how customer feedback informed updates to Configuration as Code.

Feature branch environments with Kubernetes and Octopus

Creating dynamic environments inside of Kubernetes for feature branches with Octopus.

Webinar: Automating deployments with VSTS and Octopus Deploy

Announcing a webinar with Brian A. Randell and Damian Brady to show the Octopus Deploy extension for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

Certificates Feature

Announcing the release of the Certificates Feature in Octopus Deploy

Let's talk Licensing

Octopus deploy licenses, renewals and upgrades

RFC: Composite Step Templates

Combine multiple step templates together into a single importable block

Octopus 3.0: Released!

Today we announce the release of Octopus 3.0

Changing website port on each deployment

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

Support

Information explaining how to perform requested tasks by Octopus support.

Capture a crash dump

How to capture a crash dump to help the Octopus team diagnose problems when something unexpected happens.

Debug problems with Octopus variables

How to debug problems with Octopus variables when a variable used during a deploying is different than the one you expect.

Get the raw output from a deployment process

How to get the raw output from a deployment process to help the Octopus team resolve deployment related issues.

Get the Raw Output From a Task

How to get the raw output from a task to help the Octopus team resolve deployment related issues.

Record a problem with Octopus Deploy in your web browser

This page describes how you can record HTTP traffic between your browser and Octopus Server. This is especially helpful if you are having a problem with Octopus Deploy in your web browser. It includes instructions for taking a screen recording and web traffic capture, for diagnosing issues.

How to turn on variable logging and export the task log

How to turn on variable logging and export the task log to help the Octopus team resolve deployment issues.

Send a secret to Octopus

How to send sensitive information to Octopus support.

Credits

Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.

Process dumps

Octopus Server and Tentacle process dumps

Troubleshooting AWS transport level errors

A guide for troubleshooting AWS Transport Errors.

Log files

Octopus Server and Tentacle log file locations and details.

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