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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.

Octopus 2020.1: Dark mode and better Linux support

Octopus 2020.1 includes dark mode support, AWS and Azure built-in steps are now cross-platform, the Octopus CLI is now available via Homebrew, Yum, and APT and enviroment specific worker pools.

Introducing dark mode

Octopus 2020.1 introduces a dark theme to Octopus Deploy.

Tentacle versioning and when to update

Every time a new Octopus Server instance is released we also bump the Tentacle version. Here's why and what to do about it.

Eating our own dog food

How using Octopus to manage Octopus Cloud has helped us eat our own dog food and improve

Create a mixed AWS VPC with CloudFormation

Learn how to create a mixed AWS VPC with this sample CloudFormation template.

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

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

Octopus.Client goes Open Source

Octopus.Client and Sampler are now Open Source and versioned using SemVer. Octopus.Client and Octo.exe are now .NET Core and have a Async API.

Configuring Octopus Deploy for IPv6

Setting up your Octopus Deploy service to communicate over IPv6 is as simple as doing nothing! Dual mode connectivity has now been enabled to allow Tentacle communications over both IPv4 and IPv6 as default.

Octopus 3.0: Released!

Today we announce the release of Octopus 3.0

Thoughts from my User Experience Journey

Thoughts and takeaways from my recent journey with the Onboarding team, diving further into user-experience.

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 Engineering

Create a private AWS VPC with CloudFormation

Learn how to create a private AWS VPC with this sample CloudFormation template.

Request for Comments - ECS integration with Octopus milestone two

Provide your feedback on the proposed second ECS integration milestone in Octopus.

Introducing Linux Tentacle for Highly Secured Linux Servers

Octopus Deploy now supports Tentacles on Linux

Octopus Deploy 3.6: Project Trigger enhancements

Octopus Deploy 3.6: Project Trigger enhancements

Octopus Deploy 2019.11: Operations Runbooks RTW

Octopus 2019.11 introduces our Runbooks platform for automating operations tasks with support for scheduling, permissions, parameterized runs and more.

A beginner's guide to containers

A brief overview at containers covering what they are and why they're useful.

Introducing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud has been a while in the making. In this post we look at how and why Octopus Cloud came to be, and what the future may look like

Why multi-tenancy is a confusing term and what it means to Octopus

Andy looks at why multi-tenancy is a tricky thing to define and how that affected Octopus's messaging.

An Octopus Christmas Carol

A look at Octopus in 2022 through the lens of deployments past, present, and yet to come

Using variables for Kubernetes without breaking YAML

Injecting Octopus variables into your Kubernetes YAML scripts is easier to perform with extended support for the existing structured variable replacement functionality.

Create a public AWS VPC with CloudFormation

Learn how to create a public AWS VPC with this sample CloudFormation template.

Importing variables from SSISDB

Use PowerShell and the Octopus Deploy API to automate importing variables from SSISB

Using Ad-Hoc Scripts in your Automated Database Deployment Pipeline

Using Ad-Hoc Scripts in your Automated Database Deployment Pipeline

Using ad-hoc scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

Using ad-hoc scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.
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Documentation

Send a secret to Octopus

How to send sensitive information to Octopus support.

Create PaaS MySQL database server

With Octopus Deploy you can create a MySQL PaaS database server with a runbook.

Upgrading host OS or .NET

A how-to guide on how to upgrade the host OS or .NET with Octopus Deploy.

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