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Reusable YAML with CircleCI orbs

An overview of using and creating CircleCI Orbs.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

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

Use TFS with Octopus? We want to hear from you!

We're planning some improvements to the way we integrate Octopus Deploy with TFS, and we'd love to get your feedback.

CI/CD with Next.js, GitHub Actions, and Octopus Deploy

In this post we'll use GitHub Actions to bundle our Next.js assets and deploy them to AWS S3 using Octopus Deploy.

End-to-end testing with Cypress

Learn how to run end-to-end tests with Cypress as part of an Octopus deployment.

Hashing API keys to improve security

From Octopus 2.2 onwards we're going to be storing API keys using a one-way hash function

Octopus 2021 Q1: Self-host Octopus on Linux

Octopus 2021 Q1: Octopus Server's Linux Docker image is Released to Web (RTW), Tentacle for ARM/ARM64, Global Search and API key management improvements.

Deploying a microservice to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn the features available in Octopus to streamline and manage Kubernetes deployments with an example microservices application stack.

Using build information for visibility across your CI/CD pipelines

Learn how to include build information from your CI server in your CD processes.

How does Octopus handle rollbacks?

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?

Scripting the creation of Octopus API keys

Learn how to script the creation of an API key for use with the Octopus REST API, and how to use browser developer tools to explore the Octopus API in action.

Deploying to Payara

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

What's new in Octopus 2.2

PowerShell console, PowerShell conventions, and IIS bindings

Variable substitution in files with Octopus 2.3

Replace portions of a file using Octopus variables

Documentation

Build information

Integrate your commits and work items with Octopus Deploy.

Reprioritize Tasks

An example script to find deployments or runbook runs for a specific environment, project, or tenant and move them to the top of the queue.

Find unused projects

An example script that will find any project that hasn't had a release created in the previous days

Find unused targets

An example script the will find provide a list of targets being unused that might cause your target count to be inflated.

Run a runbook with prompted variables

An example script to run a runbook with prompted variables.

Exporting and Importing Projects

Projects can be exported, and imported into another space. (Project Bento)

Create and publish a new runbook snapshot

An example script to create and publish a new runbook snapshot

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

Find variable value usage

An example script that finds all variables with a specific value in project variables and library variable sets.

List users

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

List users with editing roles

An example script to list all users that have any user roles (permissions) containing the words Edit, Create or Delete.

Add Azure Active Directory login to users

An example script to add Azure Active Directory login details to Octopus user accounts.

Configuring the version of the Azure CLI

A version of Azure CLI is bundled with Octopus Deploy and it's possible to configure which version you wish to use in your deployments.

SSH target requirements

Requirements for using SSH deployment targets with Octopus.

SSH target

Configuring Linux servers as SSH deployment targets in Octopus.

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