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Blog posts

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

From zero to Octopus hero - Getting to know Octopus Deploy

Join Sarah Lean as she learns about Octopus Deploy.

Getting started with Docker

This post opens our Kubernetes training series. First, learn how to install Docker on your local workstation.

Getting started with Bamboo

Learn how to install Bamboo, and build and push a Docker image to a container registry.

Getting started with the Terraform provider for Octopus Deploy

Introducing the official Terraform provider for Octopus Deploy. Learn how to manage Octopus instances with Terraform.

Getting started with Kind and Octopus

Learn how to perform your first Kubernetes deployment with Kind and Octopus

Getting started with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

How to get started using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Getting started with LDAP auth provider

Learn how to configure your self-hosted Octopus Deploy instance to work with the new LDAP auth provider.

Using the Deploy a Bicep template step

Learn how to configure our new Deploy a Bicep template step

External feed triggers

We're introducing external feed triggers for Kubernetes. This monitors Helm chart repositories and container image registries referenced in your deployment steps. When it detects a new version, Octopus automatically creates a release.

Festive Tech Calendar - Octopus hackathon

Get involved with the Octopus Deploy hackathon and you could win one of three Octopus swag bundles.

Documentation

Getting started

Getting started with the Octopus.Client.

Getting started

This section provides an overview of Octopus Deploy concepts and links to the relevant documentation, which explore the concepts further and guide you through implementing them with Octopus Cloud or your own self-hosted Octopus Server

Best Practices

Some of the best practices you can adopt to set yourself up for success in using Octopus Deploy.

First Runbook Run

This section will walk you through how to configure your first runbook run in Octopus Deploy.

First Deployment (2022.2 and below)

This section will walk you through how to configure your first deployment in Octopus Deploy.

Configure Environments

Step by step guide on how to configure environments in Octopus Deploy

Create and Deploy a Release

Step by step guide on how to create and deploy a release in Octopus Deploy

Create a Project

Step by step guide on how to create projects in Octopus Deploy

Defining the deployment process

Step by step guide on how to define a deployment process in Octopus Deploy

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure CLI

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)

Add runbook deployment targets

Step by step guide on how to add deployment targets for runbooks in Octopus Deploy.

Configure Runbook Environments

Step by step guide on how to configure environments in Octopus Deploy.

Create a runbook

Step by step guide on how to create a runbook in Octopus Deploy.

Create a Project

Step by step guide on how to create projects in Octopus Deploy.

Defining the runbook process for workers

Step by step guide on how to define a runbook process to run on Workers in Octopus Deploy.

Defining the runbook process for targets

Step by step guide on how to define a runbook process in Octopus Deploy.

Runbook specific variables

Step by step guide on how to define and use variables in an Octopus Deploy runbook.

Running a Runbook

Step by step guide on how to run a runbook in Octopus Deploy.

First Deployment

This section will walk you through how to configure your first deployment in Octopus Deploy.

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