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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.

An Octopus Christmas Carol

A look at Octopus in 2022 through the lens of deployments past, present, and yet to come

Reprioritizing the task queue

Learn about our new feature that lets you reprioritize the task queue in Octopus.

Support @ Octopus

We consider support a core part of Octopus, but what exactly happens when you need help?

OctoPack 3.0

Better TFS support, and no need to check in OctoPack to source control

Chicago ALM user group: Automating deployments with Octopus Deploy

Ian Paullin will be talking about Octopus at the Chicago ALM user group on May 21st

DeployFailed.ps1 support

Webinar: Continuous Delivery with Team Build and Octopus Deploy

Introducing Octopus ID

Introducing our plans for single sign-on and new account features, using Octopus ID.

Deleting Releases via the Command Line

The Services Behind Octopus Deploy Ltd

IIS and Windows Service Steps including Virtual Directory support

We have added support for deploying to Virtual Directories and new specific deployment steps for IIS and Windows Services

Azure Environments

From Sysadmin to SRE

Infrastructure as Code, the Sysadmin’s portal into DevOps

RFC: Azure Service Fabric support

This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus Deploy

Featured Step Template: HTTP - Test URL

Test that a URL responds at the end of a deployment

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

Execution containers for workers: Extending the Octopus worker-tools Docker image

Unsure what image to use with the Execution containers for workers feature in Octopus? This post covers what the octopus/worker-tools image is, how to extend it, and why you might create your own image entirely.

Octopus.Client goes Open Source

Octopus.Client and Sampler are now Open Source and versioned using SemVer. Octopus.Client and Octo.exe are now .NET Core and have a Async API.

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

Octopus 2.0 UI: Angular, Grunt and responsiveness

Some screenshots of the Octopus 2.0 progress

Documentation

Runbooks publishing

Publishing makes a runbook available to scheduled triggers and consumers.

Manage DNS records in Azure

Create or delete DNS A records in Azure DNS using a runbook.

Delete an existing AWS CloudFormation stack

Delete an existing AWS CloudFormation stack.

Delete an AWS CloudFormation stack

Use a runbook to teardown resources by deleting an AWS CloudFormation stack.

Change AWS load balancer target group

Modify an existing AWS Elastic load-balancer listener to forward traffic to a different target group with a runbook

Azure Service Fabric

Learn how Octopus Deploy fits into a Continuous Deployment pipeline for your Azure Service Fabric applications.

Environment permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to a specific permission for a specific environment.

Prevent release progression

Preventing progression lets you block a release of a project from being used in any future deployments.

Expose the Octopus Web Portal over HTTPS

How to expose the Octopus Web Portal securely over HTTPS.

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