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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.

Deploying a JavaScript library project with Octopus

Learn how to handle cache-busting and config of a shared JavaScript library bundle, and make it easy to reference in other Octopus projects.

Octopus 2.0 UI: Angular, Grunt and responsiveness

Some screenshots of the Octopus 2.0 progress

Managing all consumers of your JavaScript library as tenants

Use Octopus tenants to control who references which version of your JavaScript library project.

Documentation

HTTP Security Headers

Describes the security related browser headers that Octopus supports

Configure

Configure this Octopus instance

Create instances

 Registers a new instance of the Octopus service

Database

 Create or drop the Octopus database

Delete instances

 Deletes an instance of the Octopus service

Export certificates

Exports the certificate that Octopus Server can use to authenticate itself with its Tentacles

External Worker

Configure the external worker used to run deployment actions and scripts on the Octopus Server

Import certificates

 Replace the certificate that Octopus Server uses to authenticate itself with its Tentacles

License

 Import a license key

List instances

Lists all installed Octopus instances

Lost Master Key

Get your Octopus Server working again after losing your Master Key

Metrics

Configure metrics logging

New certificate

Creates a new certificate that Octopus Server can use to authenticate itself with its Tentacles

Node

Configure settings related to this Octopus Server node

Path

Set the file paths that Octopus will use for storage

Proxy

 Configure the HTTP proxy used by Octopus

Regenerate certificates

 Regenerate one or more of the certificates that Octopus uses

Run

 Starts the Octopus Server in debug mode.

Service

 Start, stop, install and configure the Octopus service.

Show configuration

 Outputs the server configuration

Show Master Key

 Print the server's Master Encryption Key, so that it can be backed up

Show thumbprint

 Shows the thumbprint of the server instance

SSL certificate

Binds the SSL/TLS certificate used by the portal to the specified address/port.

Version

Show the Octopus Server version information

Watchdog

 Configure a scheduled task to monitor the Octopus service(s).

Tentacle.exe command line

Tentacle.exe is the command line executable that runs the Octopus Tentacle instance.

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