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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.

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Creating an RDS instance with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to create an RDS instance with this sample CloudFormation template.

Top 8 container registries

There are many container registry services, suitable for all different kinds of teams. We look at the top 8 and why you might consider them.

Deploying a Lambda with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to deploy a Lambda with this sample CloudFormation template.

Octopus Workflow Builder feedback

Request for feedback on the early release of a workflow builder.

At the helm with Shipra Mahindra

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Shipra Mahindra, Senior Product Manager.

Octopus 2022 Q2: Containerize and modernize your CI/CD pipeline

Octopus 2022 Q2 with support for cloud-native containers and serverless is now available. Plus automatic cloud target discovery and ServiceNow integration (early access).

ServiceNow integration for Octopus Deploy: early access preview

Octopus introduces ServiceNow Change Management without the friction (early access preview).

Azure Bicep and Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Bicep templates and automate their deployment using Octopus Runbooks.

Source control your Azure Bicep files

Learn how to use GitHub to source control your Azure Bicep files and then deploy them using Octopus.

Deploying to Azure with GitHub Actions and Octopus

Learn how to deploy an Azure web application with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy.

Monoliths versus microservices

A post about the differences between monoliths and microservices. Find out why we think microservices are better than monoliths for enterprise software applications, and learn the challenges with each approach.

Using the new ECS deployment step

Learn how to implement the new ECS deployment step.

The benefits of containerization

Containers have a range of benefits that help you become more agile in software delivery. Containers are scalable, portable and complement your DevOps processes.

Containers - what you need to get started

A high-level look at what you need to get started with containerization.

Using GitLab feeds with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to connect GitLab feed types to Octopus Deploy.

Microservices and frameworks

An overview of microservices and the different frameworks you can use to support them.

Request for Comments - Migrating from scriptcs to dotnet-script

Provide your feedback on the proposed migration from scriptcs to dotnet-script.

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.

At the helm with Jessica Ross

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Jessica Ross, Director of User Experience and Design.

Using the Octopus Terraform Provider to create standards

Learn how to leverage the Octopus Deploy Terraform Provider to create standards for all spaces in your instance.

Configuring a GitHub NuGet registry as an external feed

A guide to configuring a GitHub NuGet registry as an external feed for Octopus Deploy.

Maintaining your own version of the Azure CLI

Learn how to manage your own version of the Azure CLI and why we no longer support tooling.
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Approvals

Octopus Deploy can integrate with supported ITSM tools for deployment control using Change Request approvals

ServiceNow Integration

Octopus Deploy can integrate with your ServiceNow instance for deployment control using Change Request approvals

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.

Disaster recovery

How to work with your data and disaster recovery in an Octopus Cloud instance.

Creating releases from a build server plugin on a version-controlled project

Examples of how to ensure that the right branch is used to create the release when using a build server plugin.

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