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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.Using Octopus Subscriptions
Subscriptions let you subscribe to events so you can be notified when things are happening in your world of Octopus!Import and export projects and releases with Octo.exe
Octo.exe now makes it possible to synchronize projects and releases between Octopus servers.Octopus.Client goes Open Source
Octopus.Client and Sampler are now Open Source and versioned using SemVer. Octopus.Client and Octo.exe are now .NET Core and have a Async API.Changes to the TFS/VSTS Extension
An update on the changes in the TFS and VSTS extension for build and release tasksAutomation with Octopus.Client
One of the benefits of being API first is that you can do anything that the Octopus UI does via web requests. We have a handy library called Octopus.Client that wraps the API and makes it easy to perform operations on your Octopus Deploy Server. This article will focus on some common operations using PowerShell.Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll
A guest post from Daniel Nolan of ReadyRoll on Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRollExplore a live Octopus Deploy server
We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instanceUse TFS with Octopus? We want to hear from you!
We're planning some improvements to the way we integrate Octopus Deploy with TFS, and we'd love to get your feedback.Automating Octopus with Azure Functions
Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.Competition: Build the Octopus Library
Help other Octopus users by sharing your reusable step templatesBuildDeploySupport: 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.UI design for eventual consistency
UI design for eventual consistencyRFC: Octopus Reactions - Integration toolkit
A proposal for a feature we're calling Reactions. A set of tools to enable event based integration with a wide range of third party products. We'd love you to have your say!RFC: Improving the Create Release screen
A mockup of a new design for the create release screenRFC: Improving the deployment process
Proposed changes to better support using Octopus to deploy in distributed environments.Resetting RavenDB indexes
Sometimes in order to troubleshoot Octopus, you'll need to reset your RavenDB indexes.Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites
Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web SitesHashing API keys to improve security
From Octopus 2.2 onwards we're going to be storing API keys using a one-way hash functionWhat's new in Octopus 2.1
Built-in NuGet repository, guest access, variable improvements and multiple instance managementWebinar: 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 ServerInvoking an executable from PowerShell with a dynamic number of parameters
Calling an executable from PowerShell is easy - most of the time, you just put an `&` in front. But it gets tricky when you need to pass in a variable length list of parameters. This blog post shows you how.
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Diagnostics
Octopus diagnostics includes a system integrity check to ensure the system's database schema and data are correct.Octopus database
Octopus uses a Microsoft SQL Server Database to store environments, projects, variables, releases, and deployment history.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.