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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.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.Tentacle versioning and when to update
Every time a new Octopus Server instance is released we also bump the Tentacle version. Here's why and what to do about it.Dropping support for Windows Server 2003 machines
Octopus Deploy will drop support for targets and Workers running Windows Server 2003 from the 2024.1 release.Deprecations coming in 2024
Octopus will do some spring cleaning in 2024 and drop support for outdated features. Learn which ones and why.Docker on Windows and Octopus Deploy
ScottGu announced Docker and Microsoft partnership. What does it mean for deployment automation on Windows?Enabling Parallel Deployments in Tomcat with Octopus Deploy
Learn how to deploy multiple versions of your web applications to Tomcat through Octopus DeploySelf-service runbooks for operations teams
Learn about self-service runbooks and how they benefit operations teamsBreaking up monolithic deployments
Learn how to break up a large process into smaller deployable componentsInfrastructure as code in Azure with Terraform and Octopus Deploy
In this blog post, I demonstrate using Infrastructure as code from Terraform and Octopus Deploy to create resources and services in Azure.Kubernetes 1.20 is deprecating Docker Runtime: What does this mean?
With the news that Kubernetes 1.20 is deprecating Docker, there has been a lot of panic. This blog post explains what's happening and what you can do to solve the problem.Octopus Deploy on Docker quickstart
Learn how to configure Octopus Deploy to run on Docker on your local computer in just five minutes.Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster
More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part one
Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi.Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part two
Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy.Create an AKS Cluster with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy
Learn how to create an Azure Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) using Pulumi, Python, and Octopus DeployOn the naming of “DevOps Engineers”
Why is this job title so controversial? What's a better option?
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Documentation
Legacy Tentacle installation requirements
Software and hardware requirements for installing legacy versions of Tentacles.Installation requirements
Software and hardware requirements for installing the Octopus Server.Upgrading from Octopus 3.x to the latest version
Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 3.x to the latest versionUpgrading from Octopus 4.x / 2018.x to latest version
Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 4.x or 2018.x to the latest versionUpgrading major releases of Octopus Deploy
Information on how to upgrade major releases of Octopus Deploy.Upgrading minor and patch releases of Octopus Deploy
Information on how to upgrade major releases of Octopus Deploy.Reporting
Octopus reporting makes it easy to produce reports over your deployment history, using your preferred reporting tools.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.Retention policy Tentacle cleanup and troubleshooting
Reviewing and troubleshooting why some files aren't cleaned up by Octopus retention policies.Upgrading Octopus
Everything you need to know about upgrading Octopus to a newer version.Troubleshooting Access Denied Starting Http Listener
A guide for troubleshooting start up error "Access Denied starting HTTP Listener"Add domain teams
An example script that adds teams from a new domain to existing Octopus teams.Change users domain
An example script that changes an Octopus user's Active Directory domain assignment.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.