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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.

How we work. Some recent lessons

Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed team

Deploying software shouldn't feel like visiting the dentist

Reasons you should deploy early and often.

Inside DevOps with Brandon Moore

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Brandon Moore, Senior Software Developer in the power industry.

Introducing Execution Timeouts

Learn about our new Execution Timeouts feature to handle unexpectedly long-running processes.

Introducing Operations Runbooks for your operations team

Introducing runbooks for your operations team. It’s now possible to run operations and maintenance tasks like file clean-ups, backup and restore jobs, as well as disaster recovery failovers.

At the helm with Trish Khoo

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Trish Khoo, our Director of Engineering

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part two

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy.

Pitfalls with SQL rollbacks and automated database deployments

While it is possible to do SQL rollbacks to revert database changes, the real question is, should you? This article will walk through some questions to consider.

Variable update notification

Learn how to post a message to Slack when a variable has changed using Azure Functions and Octopus subscriptions.

Set up a local Kubernetes deployment pipeline

We teach you how to set up a local Kubernetes deployment pipeline, so you can experiment without risk.

The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.

The state of config file formats: XML vs. YAML vs. JSON vs. HCL

Learn about the different configuration file formats that are available and when you should use them.

Java deployments to Tomcat with YAML and XML configuration file replacements

Learn how to take advantage of the XML, YAML, and Properties configuration file replacement when deploying Java applications.

Introduction to HCL and HCL tooling

Learn about the different tooling you can use with HCL.

Deploying to Oracle with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

Learn how to deploy to Oracle using Octopus Deploy and Liquibase.

Runbook lessons learned and recommendations

Recommendations from lessons learned on how to design and implement runbooks

RFC: Azure Service Fabric support

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

Integrating Octopus and Grafana

Learn how to use the Octopus Grafana datasource plugin to visualize your deployments

Deconstructing blue/green deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to manually implement blue/green deployments in Kubernetes and Octopus.

Exposing Octopus variables to a Kubernetes container

Learn how to use the envFrom feature in Kubernetes to pass groups of variables to a container.

Creating multi-environment Kubernetes deployments

Learn how to securely deploy across multiple environments in a single Kubernetes cluster

Octopus 2020.5: Solid improvements and Config as Code update

Octopus 2020.5 introduces support for self-signed certificates, GitHub container registry support, Kubernetes and Terraform improvements and more.
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Documentation

Environment recommendations

Environments form the backbone of your deployment pipeline. Here we provide some recommendations for configuring your environments to better prepare you to scale your Octopus Deploy instance up and out as you add more projects.

Administration

Octopus administration tasks and command reference.

Project recommendations

Projects form a critical element in Octopus Deploy. Here, we cover some recommendations for projects; getting started on the right foot is vital in helping your Octopus Deploy instance scale.

High Availability

Octopus High Availability (HA) enables you to run multiple Octopus Server nodes, distributing load and tasks between them.

How to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

A how-to guide on how to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

Creating a test instance

A guide on how to create a test instance with Octopus Deploy

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