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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.

RFC: Improving the deployment process

Proposed changes to better support using Octopus to deploy in distributed environments.

Octopus Deploy in SD Times Magazine

Working at Octopus - a story of silicon and steel

A history of the computers I have enjoyed as a result of the Octopus Deploy computer policy.

How we create the Tentacle Army

Before a release of Octopus is published we fire up the Tentacle Army and attempt to break the release. At the moment the Tentacle Army consists of 800 tentacles located in Singapore and Brazil, regions chosen for their high region-to-region latency.

Octopus Deploy 2.0 has shipped!

A summary of key features in 2.0

Octopus Deploy High Availability

Octopus: HA makes it possible to set up a high performance, reliable Octopus Deploy cluster. This post explains the architecture, and the kinds of scenarios it does and doesn't support.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.

Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

Database Feature Branch Deployments

Standing up a sandbox for feature branches is a common scenario. This article aims to solve that for databases.

SQL Server and PowerShell made easier with dbatools: Practical Examples

A comparison between the SqlServer and dbatools PowerShell modules

Webinar: Continuous Delivery with Team Build and Octopus Deploy

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

Octopus Deploy 3.5: Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Introducing Octopus Deploy 3.5, with new features including Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Deploying to Wildfly from Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to Wildfly hosted on a Linux server with Octopus Deploy

Octopus 2.0: Health checks will now check for free disk space

Self-hosted Octopus in a Cloud VM vs. Octopus Cloud

Information to consider when deciding on the right Octopus Deploy installation to use in the cloud.

Deploying Spring Boot Applications as Windows Services

Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot application as a Windows service with Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy Java Support RFC

Our plans to support Java as a first class citizen in Octopus Deploy

Introducing the Beta Migration Tool

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

Learn how to build and configure a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun and development purposes.

Linux worker for PowerShell templates

Using a Linux worker to run Step Templates written in PowerShell.

Documentation

PCI compliance and Octopus Deploy

Using Octopus Deploy in PCI compliant environments.

Exposing Octopus

You can keep your Octopus installation inside your corporate network, or you may want to expose it to the Internet. This section describes how to safely expose your Octopus installation and the security implications you should consider.

Azure app service environments

This guide covers deploying to Azure App Service Environments.

Troubleshooting Tentacles

How to troubleshoot problems with Octopus Tentacles.

GitHub Organizations

Octopus Deploy houses its source code on GitHub in three organizations.

Jenkins Pipeline projects

Managing Octopus steps in a Jenkins pipeline project.

Octopus reporting with an excel template

Octopus reporting with an excel template

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