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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.

Defining Tomcat context paths

Learn how Tomcat defines the context path of your web application.

Deploying Tomcat apps via the manager

Learn how to deploy web applications to Tomcat via the manager

Deploying to Tomcat from Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to Tomcat hosted on a Linux server with Octopus Deploy

An Introduction to Hollow JARs

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

Deploying to Wildfly from Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to Wildfly hosted on a Linux server with Octopus Deploy

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

Maven repositories explained

Learn how Maven repositories are structured and how to access artifacts stored in them.

Deploying to Octopus from Jenkins Using Pipelines

Learn how to craft a Jenkins Pipeline that builds a Java project and deploys it to Octopus.

Octopus Pipe for Bitbucket: octopus-cli-run

Learn how to integrate Octopus and BitBucket with our new experimental BitBucket Pipe called octopus-cli-run.

Octopus Deploy Java Support RFC

Our plans to support Java as a first class citizen in Octopus Deploy

Rolling back a Tomcat deployment

Learn how to roll back an application deployed to an Apache Tomcat server.

Deploying a Secured Web App to Tomcat with Octopus

Learn how to go from a fresh Tomcat download to a secured web app deployment using the new features in Octopus 4.1

Improved Azure App Service deployments

Learn about the improved Azure App Service deployment step included in Octopus 2021.1.

Java deployments to Tomcat with YAML and XML configuration file replacements

Learn how to take advantage of the XML, YAML, and Properties configuration file replacement when deploying Java applications.

Track Jira issues across your CI/CD pipeline

Integrating Jira, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy to get clear traceability across your CI/CD pipeline.

Deploying to Payara

Learn how to deploy to a Payara web server with Octopus Deploy.

Deploying a Java web app with a MySQL backend through Octopus Deploy

This post demonstrates how to deploy a Java web application that uses a MySQL backend using Octopus Deploy.

Using GitLab feeds with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to connect GitLab feed types to Octopus Deploy.

Deploying and consuming ZIP files from Maven

Learn how to deploy ZIP files to Maven and consume them in an Octopus project.

Deploy and consume ZIP files from Maven

Learn how to deploy ZIP files to Maven and consume them in an Octopus project.

Octopus September Release 3.17

This month's release includes first-class Java deployment support, Swagger support for the Octopus API bug fixes and more.

SQL Server deployment options for Octopus Deploy

A brief summary of the most popular SQL Server deployment tools used with Octopus Deploy

On the naming of “DevOps Engineers”

Why is this job title so controversial? What's a better option?

Documentation

Java applications

Deploy to WildFly, Red Hat JBoss EAP and Tomcat using Octopus Deploy

Rolling back a Tomcat deployment

This guide covers the topic of rolling back an application deployed to a Tomcat Java application server.

Maven feeds

Configuring Maven repositories as Octopus Feeds

Packaging applications

Packaging applications for deployment with Octopus Deploy.

Deploy a sample package

Step by step guide on how to deploy a sample package Octopus Deploy

Push

Pushes a package (.nupkg, .zip, .tar.gz, etc.) package to the built-in NuGet repository in an Octopus Server.

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