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Deploying AWS SAM templates with Octopus

Learn how to integrate SAM templates with Octopus deployments for AWS serverless applications.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

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

Why you should not use Lambda aliases to define environments

There are many approaches to running Lambdas across logical environments, but you need to be wary of the pitfalls when using aliases.

Creating an EKS cluster with eksctl

Creating EKS clusters is now a trivial task with eksctl. In this post, we’ll learn how to create a cluster and integrate it with Octopus.

Paved versus golden paths in Platform Engineering

Find out the critical difference between paved paths and golden paths in Platform Engineering.

Safe schema updates - Strangling the monolith

This post discusses patterns for migrating from a tightly coupled to a loosely coupled architecture.

The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.

The Services Behind Octopus Deploy Ltd

Roles and Upgrades - request for comments

Variable specificity and complexity

Variables can be scoped to multiple values. What's the simplest way to score them?

Reflections on 2017

A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update

Octopus Deploy 2018 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2018, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

An Introduction to Hollow JARs

Learn what Hollow JARs are and how you can create them from you existing WAR files.

Why you should take a look at Kotlin's standard library

See how run, let, also and apply can improve your Kotlin code.

Octopus 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.

Octopus January Release 2018.1

What's new in Octopus 2018.1

Octopus React UI Permissions

Inside look into the React UI permissions

Deleting Releases via the Command Line

Continuous Delivery of Octopus

How we're delivering higher quality releases of Octopus Deploy in less time.

Documentation

List users

An example script to list all users in an Octopus instance.

Moving your Octopus Server to another Active Directory domain

the steps and considerations to move your Octopus Server from one Active Directory domain to another.

Migrate to Octopus Server Linux Container from Windows Container

A guide on how to migrate to the Octopus Server Linux Container from the Octopus Server Windows Container

Migrate to Octopus Server Linux Container from Windows Server

A guide on how to migrate to the Octopus Server Linux Container from Octopus Server running on a Windows Server

Samples instance

View real-world deployment and runbook examples in our Octopus Cloud samples instance - https://samples.octopus.app

Find target usage

An example script that will loop through all the steps in the deployment process and runbooks and determine if a target is being used

Credits

Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.

Process dumps

Octopus Server and Tentacle process dumps

Troubleshooting AWS transport level errors

A guide for troubleshooting AWS Transport Errors.

Log files

Octopus Server and Tentacle log file locations and details.

How to get a database backup and encrypt your Master Key

Guides the user on producing a database backup binary file (.bak) and encrypt their Master Key to provide us with.

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