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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 Lambda with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to deploy a Lambda with this sample CloudFormation template.

Deploy Google's Online Boutique microservice stack in Octopus

Learn how to import an existing microservice application stack into Octopus, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Packaging Node.js applications

Just because you are using Node.js, don't violate the principle of build-once, deploy-many

Octopus August Release 3.16

This month's release includes Mono-less deployments to Linux and Mac, updated ScriptCS support, bug fixes and more.

Custom kubectl scripting in Octopus

Learn some of the tricks for scripting against kubectl in Octopus

Trust Me - Assigning and Assuming IAM Roles

Learn how to use roles assigned to EC2 instances and assume secondary roles.

Continuous Delivery with Octopus and Kubernetes

This training series provides a step by step walk-through building multi-environment deployments with Octopus and Kubernetes.

Webinar - DevOps Deep Dive

All your DevOps questions answered

Tentacle versioning and when to update

Every time a new Octopus Server instance is released we also bump the Tentacle version. Here's why and what to do about it.

Octopus September Release 3.17

This month's release includes first-class Java deployment support, Swagger support for the Octopus API bug fixes and more.

Introducing the Beta Migration Tool

Blue/green deployments

Watch the blue/green deployment strategy, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Getting started with Docker

This post opens our Kubernetes training series. First, learn how to install Docker on your local workstation.

Installing a development Kubernetes cluster

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn to to install a local development Kubernetes cluster with kind.

Creating Docker containers

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn how to create a Docker image and run it as a container.

ConfigMaps and Secrets

Learn how to configure applications with ConfigMaps and Secrets, as part of our Kubernetes training series

ConfigMaps and Secrets demo

Watch as applications are deployed to a cluster configured with either a ConfigMap or Secret, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Role Based Access Control

Learn the Kubernetes resources used to implement RBAC, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Ingress and Ingress Controllers

Learn about Ingress resources and Ingress Controllers, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Ingress and Ingress Controllers demo

Learn how to deploy an Ingress Controller and expose services via Ingress resources, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Deploying to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Kubernetes cluster as an Octopus target and deploy applications to it, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Multi-environment deployments

Learn how to progress deployments to multiple environments as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Installing a dashboard

Learn how to install helm and then use it to install a dashboard to monitor the cluster, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Observing deployment strategies

Watch in realtime as pods are redeployed with different deployment strategies, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Faster deployments with the Executions API

The Executions API is a new set of endpoints that dramatically improves the performance of operations.

Deploying AWS Lambdas across environments

Learn how to progress Lambda deployments across environments using CloudFormation

New Home for Octopus Documentation

After our documentation hosting provider went under, we decided to change where we host our docs.

Documentation

Accessing container details

Docker steps provide access to container details, including network, volume, environment variables etc., and make them available in subsequent steps.

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

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