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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.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Selenium series: running tests on mobile devices

In this post, we learn how to run tests against mobile devices in BrowserStack.

Ask Octopus Episode 8 - Script Console, Disable Child Projects, Performance Part II

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.

Selenium series: running tests against BrowserStack

In this post, we learn how to run tests against the BrowserStack service.

Octopus: High Availability is now available!

Octopus: HA is now available for general use as part of Octopus 3.1.

Octolint best practices

Learn the best practices Octolint is based on so you can understand the recommendations and avoid undesirable Octopus configurations.

Reprioritizing the task queue

Learn about our new feature that lets you reprioritize the task queue in Octopus.

Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

The first step towards safe production releases... safe dev/test deployments.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.
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Documentation

Increase the Octopus Server task cap

How to change the maximum number of tasks the Octopus Server can run in parallel.

Maintain High Availability nodes

Managing the nodes in your Octopus High Availability cluster can be done in the Octopus Web Portal.

How High Availability Works

Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

Upgrading host OS or .NET

A how-to guide on how to upgrade the host OS or .NET with Octopus Deploy.

Support

Information explaining how to perform requested tasks by Octopus support.

Performance

Octopus is all about reliable and repeatable deployments, but that doesn't mean it has to be slow. This page will help you tune your Octopus installation for the best performance in your scenario.

Auto Scaling High Availability Nodes

What to consider if you want to use auto-scaling technology to scale out your Octopus Server High Availability Cluster automatically.

Node

Configure settings related to this Octopus Server node

Workers

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

Glossary

A page containing the definitions of terms used in Octopus Deploy.

Migrating from Octopus Server to Octopus Cloud

Migrating from Octopus Server to Octopus Cloud.

Designing Octopus HA in Azure

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Microsoft Azure.

Worker pools

Worker pools are used to group workers and allow targeting steps at the pool of workers best equipped to execute the step. This page describes how to configure worker pools for a variety of scenarios.

Configure

Configure this Octopus instance

Octopus Server in Kubernetes

Octopus can be installed into a Kubernetes cluster running the Octopus Server Linux container, optionally leveraging High Availability (HA).

Designing Octopus HA On-Premises

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability including database and shared storage set up for on-premises servers.

Designing Octopus HA in AWS

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in AWS.

Configuration as Code reference

Details about the configuration as code feature.

Designing Octopus HA in GCP

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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