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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.

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

Release management with dynamic infrastructure

Support redeployments for a suite of application components, by leveraging the Deploy Child Octopus Deploy Project step template with dynamic infrastructure.

Maven versions explained

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Maven versions. Learn how Maven treats different version strings.

What's new in Octopus 2.4

Step templates, script modules, a new Library tab - a ton of new features!

Deploying a Ruby web application

Learn how to deploy a Ruby web application using Octopus Deploy.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Using the WildFly CLI

Learn how to use the WildFly CLI to query and configure a WildFly application server.

Kubernetes Pod Service Account authentication

Learn how to create a Kubernetes deployment target using the Pod Service Account authentication mode.

Octopus Deploy Release 4.0

Octopus Deploy 4.0 includes a great new UI refresh and a great user experience!

Supporting Octopus Deploy customers

Over the last few years we've doubled down on providing the best support possible for our customers.

How to Handle locked files and deployments

SysInternals Handle is a useful tool for finding why a file is locked

Migrating 426 Nancy API endpoints to ASP.NET Core controllers

We migrated Octopus Deploy to a more standardized way of writing an API, using ASP.NET controllers. Learn about our implementation strategy: Derisk, Enable, Finish.

Import and export projects and releases with Octo.exe

Octo.exe now makes it possible to synchronize projects and releases between Octopus servers.

Octopus: now with more Chocolatey goodness

Chocolatey packages for Octopus are now available

Deploying to Google App Engine

Learn how to deploy a compiled application to Google App Engine.

Installing Jenkins From Scratch

Learn how to setup a basic Jenkins instance on Ubuntu.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Configuration

Server configuration is getting a whole lot easier, and more visual.

Deploying to Google Cloud Functions

Learn how to deploy functions to the Google Cloud Platform.

Competition: Build the Octopus Library

Help other Octopus users by sharing your reusable step templates

Request for Comments - ECS integration with Octopus milestone two

Provide your feedback on the proposed second ECS integration milestone in Octopus.

Deploying to Octopus from Jenkins Using Pipelines

Learn how to craft a Jenkins Pipeline that builds a Java project and deploys it to Octopus.

Constructing build information

Learn how to create the build information file to push to Octopus Deploy.
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Documentation

Download Runbook Artifact

An example script to download a runbook artifact to a specified location.

Environment permissions report

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

Update variable set variable value

An example script that loads variables from a variable set, looks for a match and replaces the variable value.

delete-package

Deletes a package from the built-in NuGet repository in an Octopus Server.

Project Release Deployment Targets Report

An example script that will provide a list of all the deployments and deployment targets deployed to.

Deployments Per Deployment Target Role Report

An example script that will provide a list of all the deployment targets in a given role and their respective deployments.

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