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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.

Active Directory Breaking change in 2019.5

What does the Active Directory breaking change mean for my organisation?

Ask Octopus Episode 19-21 - Installing Octopus, Staging deployment packages & Retrying rolling deployments

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 22-24 - Different package for different step templates, moving Octopus & Octopus Server version comparison

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.

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

How recent SHA1 collision attack discoveries impact Octopus, and PowerShell scripts to detect if you use SHA1 certificates

Azure Virtual Machine Extension

Announcing the re-release of the Azure Virtual Machine extension to install Tentacle's on your Cloud VMs

Octopus: High Availability is now available!

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

Ask Octopus Episode 25-27 - Centralized Logging, Worker working directory contents & Octopus/TeamCity Integration

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.

Deployment process enhancements update

A quick overview of some of the enhancements that have been shipped over the last few months to make configuring your deployment process a little bit easier

Ask Octopus Episode 28-30 - JSON configuration substitution, Octopus server as cattle & Active Directory breaking changes.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten and how we went about solving them.

Octopus Deploy 3.2

What's new in Octopus Deploy 3.2

Channels Walkthrough

Supporting advanced deployment scenarios with Octopus Deploy 3.2 and Channels

Why are there so many definitions of lead time?

Find out why there are multiple definitions of lead time and how you can use them to improve software delivery.

Removing the Azure VM extension for Tentacle

Find out why the Azure VM extension was deprecated and the recommended way to deploy Tentacle Windows VMs in the future.

DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model

As DevOps adoption increases, it becomes more likely the certification industrial complex will try to apply the wrong model.

Inside DevOps with Stephen Shamakian

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our next post features Stephen Shamakian, DevOps Senior Principal Engineer.
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Documentation

Server extensibility

This guide covers everything you need to know for building and customizing Octopus Server extensions.

Authoring an Octopus Server extension

Technical details of how to author an Octopus Server extension.

Building an authentication provider

Technical details of how to build an Octopus Deploy Authentication Provider.

Building a forms based authentication provider

The step involved in building a Forms based Authentication Provider.

Building an external authentication provider

The step involved in building an External Authentication Provider.

Customizing an Octopus Server extension

Octopus Deploy built-in server extensions are available on GitHub and can be forked and customized.

Installing a custom server extension

To install a custom server extension, you need to copy the extension dll into a folder on the machine that is running the Octopus Server.

ZipBombs and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Server actively prevents ZipBomb-based denial-of-service attacks using a number of preventative measures.

Managing Octopus subscriptions

Control Center is where you manage your Octopus subscriptions and their associated user access.

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