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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.

Continuous Deployment class from BBV in Switzerland

Two day training course on scripting with psake, Generating installers with WiX, and Octopus Deploy

Running manual tests against cloud infrastructure deployed by Octopus

Learn how to run tests against infrastructure that was previously deployed by Octopus.

Mixing Keys in Tomcat

Learn how to configure Tomcat to support both RSA and ECDSA certificates on a single HTTPS port.

From zero to Octopus hero - Getting to know Octopus Deploy

Join Sarah Lean as she learns about Octopus Deploy.

Considerations for browser UI testing

A look at some of the limitations and workaround for performing browser-based UI testing

Inside DevOps with Stephen Shamakian

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our next post features Stephen Shamakian, DevOps Senior Principal Engineer.

Kubernetes, Containers, and Octopus - An Update

A progress update on adding Kubernetes support to Octopus

DevOps versus SDLC

Find out if the software development life cycle still has a place in the DevOps era.

Inside DevOps with Brandon Moore

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Brandon Moore, Senior Software Developer in the power industry.

Deploying to Wildfly from Octopus Deploy

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

Running SQL Server Developer in a Windows-based Docker Container

SQL Server can run in a Windows-based docker container, how can developers leverage that on their development machines?
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Documentation

GitHub Organizations

Octopus Deploy houses its source code on GitHub in three organizations.

Designing Octopus HA in AWS

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in AWS.

Hardening Octopus

If you are hosting Octopus Deploy yourself, this guide will help you harden your network, host operating system, and Octopus Server itself. This includes things such as configuring malware protection (anti-virus), and utilizing allow lists.

HTTP Security Headers

Describes the security related browser headers that Octopus supports

Octopus - Tentacle communication

Octopus Server and Tentacle communications details.

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle

How to use custom certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle.

Troubleshooting Schannel and TLS

Troubleshooting Octopus secure communication issues with Schannel and TLS.

Outbound requests

Traffic details of network requests made by Octopus and Tentacle, and what information is included when Octopus checks for updates.

PCI compliance and Octopus Deploy

Using Octopus Deploy in PCI compliant environments.

Script integrity in Octopus Deploy

Script integrity is an interesting topic, especially in security sensitive situations. This page describes how scripting works in Octopus Deploy, interaction with PowerShell Execution Policies, and how to make Octopus work in restrictive environments.

Users and teams

Octopus users can be organized in to teams and given various permissions via roles based security. Teams can be further restricted to specific projects, environments and more.

Auditing

Octopus Deploy captures audit information whenever significant events happen in the system.

Teams with mixed environment privileges

This guide describes how to create a teams for a user with mixed environment privileges.

Default permissions for built-in user roles

A listing of the default permissions for each of the built-in user roles.

External groups and roles

Some of the authentication providers allow external groups or roles to be added as Members of Teams in Octopus.

Resetting passwords

The Octopus Web Portal makes it easy to change or reset your password.

Security and unscoped variables

Rationale behind limited user access to unscope variables if their access is restricted to specific environments.

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