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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.

Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.

Learn how to call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

A dive into the Jenkins REST API, with examples in PowerShell for creating new jobs

Selenium series: Preparing the resources

In this post, we prepare the files that our Lambda will download

Three ways to use custom Terraform plugins

Terraform does not yet support repositories for custom plugins, but here are three ways to utilize your custom plugins.

Automating developer machine setup with Chocolatey

Learn how to automate a developer machine setup using Chocolatey

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files with Octopus Deploy

How we create the Tentacle Army

Before a release of Octopus is published we fire up the Tentacle Army and attempt to break the release. At the moment the Tentacle Army consists of 800 tentacles located in Singapore and Brazil, regions chosen for their high region-to-region latency.

Enterprise deployment patterns reference implementation

Learn how to deploy the example reference implementation demonstrating the enterprise patterns.

Using the Octopus Terraform Provider to create standards

Learn how to leverage the Octopus Deploy Terraform Provider to create standards for all spaces in your instance.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report.

Deploy .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus

Learn how to deploy your .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus.

The ultimate guide to Tomcat deployments

Learn how to create a secure, highly available, load-balanced Tomcat cluster with zero downtime deployments.

Selenium series: Launching Cucumber tests

In this post, we launch a Cucumber test inside a Lambda

PowerShell and IIS: 20 practical examples

Real-world examples tested on Windows 2008 R2 through to 2016. Creating sites, configuring application pools, and examples in both the old WebAdministration module and the newer IISAdministration module.

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Documentation

Call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

Learn how to call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

Kubernetes cluster

How to configure a Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus

Linux Tentacle

How to install and configure Octopus Tentacles on Linux Servers in either listening or polling mode.

Automating Tentacle installation

Information on how to install and configure an Octopus Tentacle in a fully automated way from the command line.

Upgrading from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5.

Troubleshooting invalid certificates

How to troubleshoot invalid certificates that won't load in Octopus Deploy

Create a Google Cloud account

An example script to create a Google Cloud (GCP) account in Octopus.

How High Availability Works

Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.

Use NGINX as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Create a certificate

An example script to add a certificate to the Octopus certificate library.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

Octopus Server Linux Container

Running the Octopus Server in the official Docker Linux container

Performance

Octopus is all about reliable and repeatable deployments, but that doesn't mean it has to be slow. This page will help you tune your Octopus installation for the best performance in your scenario.

IIS Runbooks

With Octopus Deploy you can manage IIS with runbooks as part of your routine operations tasks.

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