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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.

Releases, deployments and variable snapshots

RFC - Cloud and Infrastructure Automation Support

Webinar, May 6th: What's new in Octopus 2.4!

Come along to this webinar to learn more about the features in Octopus 2.4

Announcing Octopus Deploy 3.0 pre-release

The Power of Configuration Transformations

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

Octopus Deploy 1.1

RFC: Branching

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

Runbook lessons learned and recommendations

Recommendations from lessons learned on how to design and implement runbooks

Octopus 1.5 with Azure and FTP deployments, plus ScriptCS support!

Today we released Octopus Deploy 1.5, which features support for Windows Azure cloud service deployments, as well as deployments via FTP/FTPS.

Automating Octopus with Azure Functions

Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.

Octopus vs. Build Servers

Deployment targets in Octopus 3.0 (RFC)

Listening and Polling Tentacles, SSH, Azure Websites, Azure Cloud Services, WebDeploy, offline drops and more.

Why Octopus doesn't use the .NET Service Bus (or polling)

Preparing to Migrate

Deleting Releases via the Command Line

How does Octopus handle rollbacks?

New in 2.0: Polling Tentacles

Tentacle can be configured to use polling mode, which polls the Octopus Server asking for jobs to do.

Octopus 2.0: Health checks will now check for free disk space

Still deploying manually? What you're missing

By automating deployments, they become less painful and more reliable, which allows you to make them more frequently.

New logo

Octopus Deploy now has a new logo, designed by Corey Ginnivan

Octopus 3.0 pre-release is here

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

Azure changes in 3.1

We recently made big changes to deployment targets and Azure cloud services in Octopus 3.0, and it turns out we got our design wrong. In 3.1, we'll be reverting to the 2.6-era way of deploying cloud services. This change will also affect the way we deploy Azure web apps.

RFC: Lifecycles

Lifecycles enable automation and rules around promotion

Semantic Versioning 2.0.0

Octopus 3.4 introduces support for Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

BuildDeploySupport: Sharing PowerShell scripts in Octopus

A guest blog post by Jonathan Goldman on his open source project that makes it easier to share PowerShell scripts in Octopus projects.

Documentation

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle.

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