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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.

Java CI/CD: Octopus, Jenkins, Java, Kubernetes, and the DevOps lifecycle

A blog series with practical examples on how Jenkins, Octopus, and Kubernetes fit into the DevOps lifecycle.

What is CNAB?

A look at the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification, what problems it solves, and the pros and cons of the tooling.

Exploring Istio by example

In this post, we look at a very simple sample application that we’ll use to explore the functionality of Istio.

A look at the new NGINX VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources

See the features of the new custom resource definitions introduced with the NGINX v1.5 ingress controller.

Deploying to Google App Engine

Learn how to deploy a compiled application to Google App Engine.

Java CI/CD: From JAR to Docker

In this post, we learn how to convert a Java application to a Docker image.

Introducing dark mode

Octopus 2020.1 introduces a dark theme to Octopus Deploy.

Java CI/CD: From release management to operations

In this post, we create example runbook to implement operations tasks.

Java CI/CD: From Continuous Integration to release management

In this post, we link up Jenkins and Octopus to form a CI/CD pipeline.

Java CI/CD: From local build to Jenkins Continuous Integration

Learn how to build a Docker image with a central CI server.

Importing and deploying your first Octopus project

Import your first project in Octopus Deploy and deploy a tutorial to an Azure web application for your organization.

Variable specificity and complexity

Variables can be scoped to multiple values. What's the simplest way to score them?

Reflections on 2017

A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update

Octopus Deploy 2018 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2018, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

An Introduction to Hollow JARs

Learn what Hollow JARs are and how you can create them from you existing WAR files.

Why you should take a look at Kotlin's standard library

See how run, let, also and apply can improve your Kotlin code.
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Documentation

Trend indicators

Insights helps spot performance trends

Deploy a service resource

Deploy a service resource to a Kubernetes cluster.

High Availability

Octopus High Availability (HA) enables you to run multiple Octopus Server nodes, distributing load and tasks between them.

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster.

Deploy an Ingress resource

Deploy an ingress resource to a Kubernetes cluster.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

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.

How to get a database backup and encrypt your Master Key

Guides the user on producing a database backup binary file (.bak) and encrypt their Master Key to provide us with.

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