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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.

Deploying containers to AWS Fargate

Learn how to deploy containers in the Elastic Container Registry to Elastic Container Services Fargate

Mixing Keys in Tomcat

Learn how to configure Tomcat to support both RSA and ECDSA certificates on a single HTTPS port.

Wizards, dialogs and context menus, or build servers and scripts?

Reflecting on the benefits of continuous integration tools, I'm wondering whether our focus on great CI support has meant Octopus is too hard to simply get started with. How can we improve the getting started story?

Octopus Deploy 2.0 has shipped!

A summary of key features in 2.0

Wanted: a universal application packaging format for .NET

Packaging formats and artifact repositories are essential to continuous delivery. Here are my dreams for a universal packaging format.

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments is now available. Plus new integrations and an acquisition.

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

Octopus June Release 2018.6

Octopus 2018.6 is building the foundation for some excellent new features coming soon!

How we work. Some recent lessons

Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed team

Running task cap and High Availability

Very soon we'll be launching Octopus: High Availability (HA) edition. To prepare for High Availability, we're making a few changes which will make it easier to manage Octopus server workloads.

Automated Database Deployments Series Kick Off

Automated Database Deployments Series Kick Off

Introducing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud has been a while in the making. In this post we look at how and why Octopus Cloud came to be, and what the future may look like

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

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.

Bitbucket Pipelines - Octo.exe Container Redux

Deployments from Bitbucket to Octopus is now easier when using Containers

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Packaging for .NETCore, on .NETCore, with Octopus

Using Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications on .NETCore

Eating our own dog food

How using Octopus to manage Octopus Cloud has helped us eat our own dog food and improve

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Announcing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud is now generally available!

Kubernetes, Containers, and Octopus - An Update

A progress update on adding Kubernetes support to Octopus

Octopus Workers

Octopus now supports external worker machines

Octopus July Release 2018.7

Octopus 2018.7 - Sharing the Workload with Workers!

Webinar - Starting the DevOps Journey

Taking a DevOps approach and paving the way for staying ahead in business

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Webinar - DevOps Deep Dive

All your DevOps questions answered
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Workers

External workers are machines that can execute steps that don't need to be performed on the Octopus Server or deployment targets.

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