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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.

Octopus Cloud connectivity disruption - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the Octopus Cloud network connectivity disruption from January 25, 2023.

Introducing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud has been a while in the making. In this post we look at how and why Octopus Cloud came to be, and what the future may look like

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

Manual Deployments - RFC

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

Bitbucket Pipelines - Octo.exe Container Redux

Deployments from Bitbucket to Octopus is now easier when using Containers

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Packaging for .NETCore, on .NETCore, with Octopus

Using Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications on .NETCore

Eating our own dog food

How using Octopus to manage Octopus Cloud has helped us eat our own dog food and improve

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Announcing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud is now generally available!

Kubernetes, Containers, and Octopus - An Update

A progress update on adding Kubernetes support to Octopus

Octopus Workers

Octopus now supports external worker machines

Octopus July Release 2018.7

Octopus 2018.7 - Sharing the Workload with Workers!

Webinar - Starting the DevOps Journey

Taking a DevOps approach and paving the way for staying ahead in business

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Variable Substitutions in Octopus 1.2.2

Webinar - DevOps Deep Dive

All your DevOps questions answered

Integrating docker-compose steps with Octopus Deploy

Performing docker-compose is easy with the new script running capabilities

Octopus Workers and Performance

Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performance

Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore

An adventure in build tools and Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications

Octopus 2018.8 Release

Octopus 2018.8 - Script Step Packages and Kubernetes Alpha

Packages in Script Steps

As of Octopus 2018.8 Script Steps will have the ability to reference packages

Introducing long-term Support for Octopus Server

In Q4 2018 we will be shipping our first release of Octopus Server with long-term support.

Deploying an AWS ECS task using containers from ECR

Deployments to AWS ECS using containers from ECR are now possible using the new multi-package feature of Octopus script steps

Deploying applications to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a multi-environment Kubernetes cluster and deploy an application to it.

Running manual tests against cloud infrastructure deployed by Octopus

Learn how to run tests against infrastructure that was previously deployed by Octopus.

Real Life DevOps - Representing Internal Environment Names With Target Roles

We can use Target Roles to track tenant specific environment names while using combined Dev / Test / Prod environments in Octopus.

Documentation

Workers

External workers are machines that can execute steps that don't need to be performed on the Octopus Server or deployment targets.

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