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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.Ask Octopus Episode 5 - An Interview with the CEO and creator of Octopus Deploy Paul Stovell in Brisbane. We discuss the origins of Octopus and what we will be doing in the coming year.
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Reflections on 2017
A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company updateHow 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 teamAn Introduction to Arquillian Testing
Testing Java EE code requires more than just a unit test. This blog post looks at how Arquillian solves the problem of testing Java EE apps.The big 5 benefits of automated deployment
A guest post that explores the benefits of automated deployments.My quest to reclaim the backlog
Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugsSelf-service runbooks for operations teams
Learn about self-service runbooks and how they benefit operations teamsUI design for eventual consistency
UI design for eventual consistencyOctostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy
A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.Planning Octopus 2.0
We're planning some big changes for Octopus 2.0. We need to avoid second system syndrome as well as resting on our laurels.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 EngineeringOctopus Workers and Performance
Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performanceOctopus Deploy version changes for 2018
This post outlines our decision to change versioning strategy for Octopus Deploy to a style matching our iterative, monthly release cadence. It also describes how we arrived at our decision and how continuous delivery has fundamentally changed the way we plan, build, and release our software.How to install and configure NGINX with Octopus Deploy
Learn how to create a repeatable deployment process for installing and configuring NGINX.Octopus plugin for Jira - Better visibility for your software pipeline
Our new Octopus Deploy plugin for Jira makes it easy to plan, track and ship software with better end-to-end visibility of your software pipeline.CloudFormation, WildFly and Deploying Maven Artifacts
Take a look at how you can tie together a number of the new features from recent releases to deploy Java apps to the cloud.Continuous Delivery for PowerShell Modules using Octopus Deploy and TakoFukku
Learn how to deploy PowerShell Modules to the PowerShell Gallery automatically using Octopus DeploySpring Boot as a Service
Learn how to deploy Spring Boot fully executable JAR files to EC2 Linux instances as servicesSecurity checkup for your Octopus
Take a few minutes to give your Octopus a security health check. We've recently shipped Octopus Cloud alpha which means we took time to look at how to keep a healthy and secure Octopus. You can too!Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore
An adventure in build tools and Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applicationsAt the helm with Shipra Mahindra
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 Shipra Mahindra, Senior Product Manager.At the helm with Jessica Ross
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 Jessica Ross, Director of User Experience and Design.Variable use in Octopus Deploy
Find out why it's so hard to see where variables are used.Granting federated user accounts to an EKS cluster
Learn how to grant an AWS federated user account to an EKS cluster.
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Documentation
Offload Work to Workers
Guidelines and recommendations for configuring workers in Octopus Deploy.Move the Octopus home folder and the Tentacle home and application folders
How to move the Octopus home folder and the Tentacle home and application folders.Worker pools
Worker pools are used to group workers and allow targeting steps at the pool of workers best equipped to execute the step. This page describes how to configure worker pools for a variety of scenarios.Managing multiple instances
Octopus and Tentacle Manager both have the ability to manage multiple instances.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.