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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.

At the helm with Trish Khoo

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 Trish Khoo, our Director of Engineering

Planning Octopus 2.0

We're planning some big changes for Octopus 2.0. We need to avoid second system syndrome as well as resting on our laurels.

How we are using SQL Server in Octopus 3.0

Octopus 3.0 will be built on top of SQL Server. In this post I discuss how we'll be using SQL Server, the editions we support, and high availability plans.

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd

At Octopus Deploy, we’ve been running a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd for over 12 months now, and we’re pleased to make it public.

Octopus 2020.4 now available

Octopus 2020.4 introduces better config file updates for Java, NodeJS, and Ruby, and adds built-in Worker Pools on Octopus Cloud for both Windows and Linux.

How has deployment automation benefited you?

Octopus 2.0: Bound fields UX

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

The state of config file formats: XML vs. YAML vs. JSON vs. HCL

Learn about the different configuration file formats that are available and when you should use them.

What are the benefits of using NGINX Unit?

What features does NGINX Unit have that make it an attractive solution for modern deployments?

Cloud-nomad architecture

As more organizations rethink their cloud and microservices decisions, it's time for cloud-nomad architectures.

Reflections on 2017

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

Manual Deployments - RFC

Selenium series: What is WebDriver and Selenium?

Learn what the terms WebDriver and Selenium refer to.

Ending support for Octopus Server on Windows Server 2008. Introducing Octopus Server on Linux!

Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS will be the final version of Octopus Server which can be hosted on Windows Server 2008, paving the way for Octopus Server on Linux!

Tentacle .NET version change

Learn why we're moving Tentacle from .NET Framework 4.5.2 & .NET Core 3.1 to .NET Framework 4.8 & .NET 6.

Octopus UI navigation uplift

Find out about the changes we're making to the navigation experience in Octopus Deploy.

Octopus 2.0 Task Output: RFC

The tasks screen will get an update in Octopus 2.0. Here are some mockups.

What's New in Octopus 3.4: Elastic and Transient Environments

Exploring one of the major new feature sets in Octopus 3.4: Elastic and Transient Environments

Roadmap for Octopus 2.0 and beyond

How we use SQL Server as a Document Store

18 months ago we switched from RavenDB to SQL Server, but we kept using SQL as if it were a document store. This post goes into some detail about how our database works.

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

Proper scrutiny is important, but CABs are an inefficient and ineffective way to scrutinize.

From Sysadmin to SRE

Infrastructure as Code, the Sysadmin’s portal into DevOps

Documentation

Retention policies

Retention policies allow you to specify the releases, packages and files you want to keep as well as the ones you want cleaned up.

Spectre (Speculative Execution Side-Channel Vulnerabilities), Meltdown, and Octopus Deploy

How the Spectre (speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities) and meltdown vulnerabilities impact Octopus Deploy

Capture and export a HAR file

How to capture a HAR file to help the Octopus team diagnose problems when something unexpected happens.

FIPS and Octopus Deploy

Details of using Octopus Deploy in a FIPS compliant environment.

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