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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.

Deploying software shouldn't feel like visiting the dentist

Reasons you should deploy early and often.

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

IIS and Windows Service Steps including Virtual Directory support

We have added support for deploying to Virtual Directories and new specific deployment steps for IIS and Windows Services

Integrating Octopus and Grafana

Learn how to use the Octopus Grafana datasource plugin to visualize your deployments

Supporting Octopus Deploy customers

Over the last few years we've doubled down on providing the best support possible for our customers.

Exporting and importing projects between spaces

In Octopus 2021.1 we've introduced a new feature to export and import projects.

Continuous Delivery of Octopus

How we're delivering higher quality releases of Octopus Deploy in less time.

Library variable set permission changes

Some upcoming changes to how library variable set permissions work

Can GitHub Actions replace your CI server?

With the beta release of GitHub Actions now available, is it time to retire your in house CI server?

Octopus January Release 2018.1

What's new in Octopus 2018.1

Running unit tests in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in GitHub Actions and process the results.

Understanding performance through team types

Find out how the descriptive team types in the State of DevOps report can help you improve.

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 1

Octopus 3.4 has finally reached beta maturity, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: now with multi-tenant deployments, improved support for elastic and transient environments, Cloud Regions, and proxy support for Tentacle communications.

Inside DevOps with Thiago Marcolino from YLD

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Thiago Marcolino, Platform Engineer from YLD.

Multi-tenant deployments: Origins

Multi-tenant deployments have finally arrived! This post takes a look back on why the roadmap for the new feature took such a detour but how it has become ultimately shaped by our users.

Octopus Deploy 2017 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2017, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

Defining a target architecture

How to approach defining a target architecture for your software systems.

Managing Dynamic Targets

Walkthrough of managing a QA environment in Azure

Remote Release Promotions RFC

We are designing a new feature to allow promoting Releases between different Octopus Servers (Spaces). You may want to do this for for security, geographic, or other reasons. This is a request-for-comments.

The ten pillars of pragmatic deployments

The ten pillars of pragmatic deployments that shape how we develop the features and philosophy of Octopus Deploy.

Introducing Octopus Samples

An introduction to the Octopus Samples instance and how you can access it to see sample projects in Octopus Deploy.

OctoPack 3.0

Better TFS support, and no need to check in OctoPack to source control
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Documentation

Outbound requests

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

Configuration as Code reference

Details about the configuration as code feature.

Exporting and Importing Projects

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

Getting started

This section provides an overview of Octopus Deploy concepts and links to the relevant documentation, which explore the concepts further and guide you through implementing them with Octopus Cloud or your own self-hosted Octopus Server

Synchronize packages

An example script that synchronizes packages from the built-in feed between two spaces in Octopus using the REST API.

Connecting securely with Azure Active Directory

Octopus Deploy can help you connect securely to Service Fabric clusters using Azure Active Directory authentication.

Connecting securely with client certificates

Octopus Deploy can help you connect securely to Service Fabric clusters using Client Certificate authentication.

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