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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.

Adding versions to your GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions are a powerful new feature for GitHub users, but they lack native versioning capabilities. In this blog post, we’ll see how to implement versioning.

Using GitLab feeds with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to connect GitLab feed types to Octopus Deploy.

Implementing DevSecOps to respond to vulnerabilities

As part of our series about Runbooks, learn how to configure your CI/CD pipeline to quickly identify and respond to vulnerabilities.

Deploying AWS SAM templates with Octopus

Learn how to integrate SAM templates with Octopus deployments for AWS serverless applications.

DevOps, runbooks, and kubectl

The top reasons to use Octopus Runbooks to manage your Kubernetes cluster.

Automatically provisioning Amazon EC2 instances with Tentacle installed

A short code snippet that helps you to create EC2 instances with the Octopus Deploy Tentacle agent installed and registered, ready for deployment.

Checking Kubernetes pod CPU and memory

Learn how to check a pod's resource usage in Kubernetes.

Deploying and consuming ZIP files from Maven

Learn how to deploy ZIP files to Maven and consume them in an Octopus project.

Deploy and consume ZIP files from Maven

Learn how to deploy ZIP files to Maven and consume them in an Octopus project.

Deploying to Payara

Learn how to deploy to a Payara web server with Octopus Deploy.

Exploring Istio by example

In this post, we look at a very simple sample application that we’ll use to explore the functionality of Istio.

Using the Alpine Docker image

A detailed look at how to use the Alpine Docker image

Selenium series: Emailing the results

In this post, we send the results of a Cucumber test via email

SSH into a Kubernetes cluster

Learn how to set up a SSH bastion host in your Kubernetes cluster.

%TEMP% has different values for a Windows Service running as Local System

End-to-end testing with Cypress

Learn how to run end-to-end tests with Cypress as part of an Octopus deployment.

How to install a Jenkins instance with Helm

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via Helm.

Configuring Octopus Deploy for IPv6

Setting up your Octopus Deploy service to communicate over IPv6 is as simple as doing nothing! Dual mode connectivity has now been enabled to allow Tentacle communications over both IPv4 and IPv6 as default.

Installing Minikube on Windows

Learn how to get a test Kubernetes environment on Windows with Minikube

Kubernetes Pod Service Account authentication

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

Documentation

Reference files within a package

How to reference files within a package.

Artifacts

Artifacts in Octopus provide a convenient way to collect files from remote machines during deployments.

Show thumbprint

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to show the thumbprint of the Tentacle's certificate.

Execution containers for workers

How to set a step in your deployment/runbook process to run inside a container.

Log files

Octopus Server and Tentacle log file locations and details.

Download Runbook Artifact

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

Update trust

Replaces the trusted Octopus Server thumbprint of any matching polling or listening registrations with a new thumbprint to trust

Migration

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

Automating Tentacle installation

Information on how to install and configure an Octopus Tentacle in a fully automated way from the command line.

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