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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.

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.

Octopus Deploy's response to Log4j

Learn how Octopus Deploy responded to the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).

Managing AWS costs with Instance Scheduler

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

Role Based Access Control demo

Create an Octopus target authenticated with a service account, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Continuous Delivery with Octopus and Kubernetes

This training series provides a step by step walk-through building multi-environment deployments with Octopus and Kubernetes.

Creating an EKS cluster in AWS

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to create an EKS cluster in AWS.

Deploying to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Kubernetes cluster as an Octopus target and deploy applications to it, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Multi-environment deployments

Learn how to progress deployments to multiple environments as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Installing a dashboard

Learn how to install helm and then use it to install a dashboard to monitor the cluster, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Observing deployment strategies

Watch in realtime as pods are redeployed with different deployment strategies, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Blue/green deployments

Watch the blue/green deployment strategy, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Getting started with Docker

This post opens our Kubernetes training series. First, learn how to install Docker on your local workstation.

Installing a development Kubernetes cluster

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn to to install a local development Kubernetes cluster with kind.

Creating Docker containers

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn how to create a Docker image and run it as a container.

ConfigMaps and Secrets

Learn how to configure applications with ConfigMaps and Secrets, as part of our Kubernetes training series

ConfigMaps and Secrets demo

Watch as applications are deployed to a cluster configured with either a ConfigMap or Secret, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Ingress and Ingress Controllers

Learn about Ingress resources and Ingress Controllers, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Ingress and Ingress Controllers demo

Learn how to deploy an Ingress Controller and expose services via Ingress resources, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Deploy Google's Online Boutique microservice stack in Octopus

Learn how to import an existing microservice application stack into Octopus, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

The different types of software tests

Learn why testing is important, read about manual and automated testing, and functional and non-functional testing with examples.

Role Based Access Control

Learn the Kubernetes resources used to implement RBAC, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

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

Creating Kubernetes pods, ReplicaSets, and deployments

Learn how to create Kubernetes pods, ReplicaSets, and deployments from YAML manifests, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Creating Kubernetes services

Learn how to expose pods to network traffic via a service, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

PowerShell and exit code 0

Exit code 0 in PowerShell can signify anything from "the script ran perfectly" to "your script is so horribly broken that Windows needs to be treated for PTSD". Here's how we handle it in Octopus.

Octopus June Release 3.14

This month's release brings some exciting new features including our new Octopus plugin for Atlassian's Bamboo build server as well as easier upgrades, security improvements and better performance.

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Documentation

SHA1 "Shattered" collision and Octopus Deploy

How the SHA1 "Shattered" Collision impacts Octopus Deploy

Worker Tools, Versioning and Caching

How Octopus creates, versions, caches, and releases the worker-tools docker images for use with the execution containers for workers feature.

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