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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.

Variable Editor Redesign - RFC

Updates to the variable editor ...

Change a runbook process to use execution containers

Learn how to change a runbook from running on a worker machine directly to using execution containers.

Octopus 2.0 Public Beta

Octostache Update - JSON, Indexing, Formatting and Dates

New changes required to Octostache to support Docker provided an opportunity to provide some additionally requested features

Docker Engine in Octopus Deploy

Simple Docker Engine commands are now available in Octopus Deploy for testing and feedback

Docker Compose RFC

Bringing Docker Compose functionality to Octopus Deploy

Documentation

Terraform

Octopus Deploy can help you automate provisioning infrastructure with Terraform using runbooks.

Provision AWS resources with Terraform

With runbooks, you can use Terraform to create resources in AWS.

AWS

Octopus Deploy can help you automate provisioning infrastructure in AWS using runbooks.

Provision an AWS RDS instance

Provision an AWS RDS using a runbook

Install NGINX

With Octopus Deploy you can install NGINX with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Installing Apache

With Octopus Deploy you can install Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Hardening an Ubuntu server

With Octopus Deploy you can harden an Ubuntu server as part of a routine operations task.

IIS Runbooks

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

Runbook variables

How to use variables in runbooks

Delete an AWS CloudFormation stack

Use a runbook to teardown resources by deleting an AWS CloudFormation stack.

Backup MySQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can backup a MySQL database with a Runbook

Releases

Releases allow you to capture everything required to deploy a project in a repeatable and reliable manner.

Channels

Channels allow you to dynamically change the deployment logic and lifecycle of a project based on the version being deployed.

Deleting releases

Deleting releases from your projects

Deployment notes

Summarize the changes in a deployment

Guided failures

Guided failures allow problematic deployments to be reviewed and managed human intervention.

Issue trackers

Integrating with issue trackers

Azure DevOps work item tracking integration

Configure Azure DevOps work item tracking with Octopus.

GitHub issue tracking integration

Configure GitHub issue tracking with Octopus.

Jira issue tracking

Configure Jira Cloud and Jira Server issue tracking with Octopus.

Lifecycles

Lifecycles allow you to control the way releases are promoted between environments.

Manually fail a task

How to manually fail a running or canceling task when tasks hang or get stuck.

Prevent release progression

Preventing progression lets you block a release of a project from being used in any future deployments.

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