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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.

A first look at Jenkins X

Jenkins X is a complete mental shift from the traditional role of a CI server. In this post, we take a high-level look at Jenkins X and highlight why you need to appreciate it on its own terms.

Automating support emails with Octopus Runbooks

You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.

DORA metrics - The predictive link between DevOps practice and business outcomes

What are the DORA metrics? Why do they matter? How can you use them to drive improvement?

Config as Code and persistence ignorance

Read about the Core Platform team’s experience with persistence ignorance while developing the new Config as Code feature.

Config as Code strategies

Learn good practices for using Config as Code and how to adjust your strategy in different situations.

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments is now available. Plus new integrations and an acquisition.

Best practices for Octopus Spaces

Find out how to use Octopus Spaces effectively.

What is GitOps?

GitOps is an exciting new paradigm, but it can be hard to understand exactly what the term means.

Publishing a package to a local Octopus instance with GitHub Actions

Learn how to push a package to a local instance of Octopus Deploy with a GitHub Actions Runner

At the helm with Trish Khoo

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Trish Khoo, our Director of Engineering

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.

Using variables for Kubernetes without breaking YAML

Injecting Octopus variables into your Kubernetes YAML scripts is easier to perform with extended support for the existing structured variable replacement functionality.

A beginner's guide to containers

A brief overview at containers covering what they are and why they're useful.

Choosing a container platform

A look at different container platforms and their suitability.

Live updates of Kubernetes objects during deployment

Introducing the Kubernetes Object Status check feature, providing a live update of Kubernetes objects during deployment.

How to measure DevOps mean time to recovery (MTTR)

Find out why mean time to recovery has problems and what to do about it.

Creating a high-performance DevOps toolchain

Discover the elements of a high-performance DevOps toolchain and the research that backs it up.

Inside DevOps with Dale Francis from Climavision

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Dales Francis, Director, Product Development at Climavision.

Redesigned Tenants overview dashboard

Learn how we redesigned our Tenants overview dashboard to make it easier to view and manage thousands of tenants.
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Documentation

Automatic Step Template Updates

How automatic updates of built-in steps using the new step package format work

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.

OCL Syntax for Config as Code

A description of Octopus Deploy's OCL file format.

Polling Tentacles over port 443

Octopus Polling Tentacles open a connection to the Octopus Server over port 443 to ask the Server if there is any work to do.

Private cloud migration

Guidelines for migrating an on-premises Octopus instance to private cloud hosting

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