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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.

Spring configuration strategies across environments

Learn how Octopus helps you customize your Spring applications as they are deployed across multiple environments

Shaping Configuration as Code

We've been busy recently building Configuration as Code support for Octopus Deploy. Learn about some of the factors that shaped this feature.

New in 2.0: Library variable sets

Library variable sets are a new feature that let you share settings between projects

Automating Octopus with Azure Functions

Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.

Creating test Kubernetes clusters with Kind

Learn how to integrate a test cluster created with Kind with Octopus

New in 2.0: Configurable Dashboards

The Octopus dashboard can now be customized to include only the projects/environments that you care about

Public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd

At Octopus Deploy, we’ve been running a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd for over 12 months now, and we’re pleased to make it public.

Introducing Octopus 1.0 (RC)

New in 2.0: Windows Service deployment

Octopus 2.0 can install and start Windows Services during deployment

Octopus August Release 3.16

This month's release includes Mono-less deployments to Linux and Mac, updated ScriptCS support, bug fixes and more.

Octopus Deploy sponsors the .NET Foundation

Octopus Deploy announces corporate sponsorship for the .NET Foundation

New in 2.0: Rolling Deployments

Rolling deployments allow you to control how many machines Octopus deploys to in parallel

Self-service runbooks examples

Learn to provide common administrative tasks as self-service runbooks.

From Sysadmin to SRE

Infrastructure as Code, the Sysadmin’s portal into DevOps

Octopus Deploy 2017 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2017, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

Documentation

Check Tentacles for available upgrades

An example script to check targets and workers for available Tentacle upgrades.

Download package from built-in feed

An example script that downloads a package from the built-in feed.

Find library variable set variables usage

An example script that loads variables from a library variable set and finds usages in project variables, and optionally deployment processes and runbooks.

Find variable usage

An example script that finds usages of a variable, searching in project variables, and optionally deployment processes and runbooks.

How to regenerate certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle

How to regenerate the certificates used for communication between Octopus Server and its Tentacles.

Channels

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage channels in Octopus.

Create a channel

An example script that creates a channel.

Lifecycles

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage lifecycles in Octopus.

Create a lifecycle

An example script that creates a lifecycle.

Project Groups

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage project groups in Octopus.

Create a project group

An example script that creates a project group.

Step Templates

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage step templates in Octopus.

Export step templates

An example script that exports all step templates in a Space to files.

Create an AWS account

An example script to create an AWS account in Octopus.

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