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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.

Lessons learned with home automation

Lessons learned implementing home automation.

What's new in Octopus 2.3

Deploy to specific machines, audit log filtering, prompted variables, and more

Tips for building custom execution containers

Tips and tricks to make it easier to build and maintain custom execution containers.

Insight Partners invests $172.5M in Octopus Deploy

Insight Partners is one of the largest and most successful venture funds in the world, and they’ve invested USD $172.5m in Octopus Deploy. Find out more.

Octopus Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

Octopus Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). We can assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities within our scope, so customers can confirm their installations are secure.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.

Introducing the Octopus Control Center

We want our customers to love their Octopus experience. We knew we could do better with the Octopus Account, so we've redesigned it. Find out what's changed.

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instance
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Documentation

Installation

How to install the Octopus Server.

Run multiple processes on a target simultaneously

How to run multiple processes on a deployment target simultaneously.

Username and Password

Octopus Deploy provides a Username and Password authentication provider to allow log in with standard Octopus user accounts.

Configuration

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability (HA) including different options and considerations.

Configure Octopus High Availability with Active Directory

A step-by-step guide showing you how to configure Octopus in High-Availability using Active Directory.

Configure Octopus High Availability without Active Directory

A step-by-step guide showing you how to configure Octopus in High-Availability without using Active Directory.

Design

Information on designing Octopus High Availability including different options and considerations whether its using on-premises servers or cloud infrastructure.

Designing Octopus HA in AWS

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in AWS.

Designing Octopus HA in Azure

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Microsoft Azure.

Designing Octopus HA On-Premises

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability including database and shared storage set up for on-premises servers.

Load balancing

Instructions on how to set-up third-party load balancers for Octopus High Availability (HA) to direct user traffic between each of the Octopus Server nodes.

Configuring Netscaler

Script to configure a Netscaler load balancer for use with an Octopus High Availability instance.

Maintenance

Maintaining the nodes in your Octopus High Availability (HA) cluster is an important task that can be done in the Octopus Web Portal.

Maintain High Availability nodes

Managing the nodes in your Octopus High Availability cluster can be done in the Octopus Web Portal.

Polling Tentacles with HA

With Octopus High Availability, Polling Tentacles must poll all of the Octopus Server nodes in your configuration.

Migration

How to migrate from a stand-alone Octopus server to a High Availability (HA) setup.

Troubleshooting

Solutions to common problems with Octopus High Availability (HA).

Health check step

Health check steps allow you to perform a health check on deployment targets as part of a deployment or runbook, and take action based on the result.

Packaging applications

Packaging applications for deployment with Octopus Deploy.

Package repositories

Octopus can consume package feeds from the built-in repository, local and remote NuGet feeds, Maven, JetBrains TeamCity, MyGet and Azure DevOps or TFS Package Management.

Promote a release not in the destination

An example script that will promote a release if it is not in the destination.

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