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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.

Ask Octopus Episode 11 - Automatically Cancel Tasks, Progression Prevention and Compliance

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Octopuses

There are some compelling reasons to use multiple Octopus Servers. In Octopus Deploy 4.0 we want to add first-class support for these scenarios.

Octopus Deploy 2017 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2017, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

Octopus enterprise deployment patterns

Learn the common deployment strategies enterprise teams can adopt with Octopus.

Remote Release Promotions RFC

We are designing a new feature to allow promoting Releases between different Octopus Servers (Spaces). You may want to do this for for security, geographic, or other reasons. This is a request-for-comments.

Exploring the managed instance and space patterns

Learn how to implement the managed instance and space patterns in Octopus

Database deployments with Flyway and Octopus Execution Containers

Using Octopus Execution Containers and Flyway to deploy database changes.

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

Release management with dynamic infrastructure

Support redeployments for a suite of application components, by leveraging the Deploy Child Octopus Deploy Project step template with dynamic infrastructure.

Maven versions explained

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Maven versions. Learn how Maven treats different version strings.

What's new in Octopus 2.4

Step templates, script modules, a new Library tab - a ton of new features!

Deploying a Ruby web application

Learn how to deploy a Ruby web application using Octopus Deploy.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Using the WildFly CLI

Learn how to use the WildFly CLI to query and configure a WildFly application server.

Kubernetes Pod Service Account authentication

Learn how to create a Kubernetes deployment target using the Pod Service Account authentication mode.

Octopus Deploy Release 4.0

Octopus Deploy 4.0 includes a great new UI refresh and a great user experience!

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus Deploy
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Documentation

PCI compliance and Octopus Deploy

Using Octopus Deploy in PCI compliant environments.

Isolated Octopus Servers

Working with isolated Octopus Servers due to infrastructure or governance requirements.

Security

Security considerations for Octopus Administrators.

IIS Runbooks

With Octopus Deploy you can manage IIS with runbooks as part of your routine operations tasks.

Download Runbook Artifact

An example script to download a runbook artifact to a specified location.

Environment permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to a specific permission for a specific environment.

Update variable set variable value

An example script that loads variables from a variable set, looks for a match and replaces the variable value.

Capture and export a HAR file

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

Tenants

Tenants allow you to easily create customer specific deployment pipelines without duplicating project configuration.

Multi-tenant deployment guides

Guides showing you how to use the multi-tenancy feature in Octopus for common scenarios.

Multi-tenant regions

A guide showing you how to use tenants to deploy an application to regions using different release rings in Octopus Deploy.

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