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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.

Insight Partners invests $172.5M in Octopus Deploy

Insight Partners is one of the largest and most successful venture funds in the world, and they’ve invested USD $172.5m in Octopus Deploy. Find out more.

Octopus Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

Octopus Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). We can assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities within our scope, so customers can confirm their installations are secure.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.

Introducing the Octopus Control Center

We want our customers to love their Octopus experience. We knew we could do better with the Octopus Account, so we've redesigned it. Find out what's changed.

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instance

Deploying to IBM WebSphere Liberty

Learn how to deploy to an IBM WebSphere Liberty web server with Octopus Deploy.

Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?

What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?

How we think about creating new architecture

Creating a new architecture can be daunting. Find out how we approach creating new architecture within Octopus, with real examples to tame complexity and achieve success.

Deploying PHP applications with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy PHP applications using Octopus Deploy.

Documentation

Health check step

Health check steps allow you to perform a health check on deployment targets as part of a deployment or runbook, and take action based on the result.

Packaging applications

Packaging applications for deployment with Octopus Deploy.

Package repositories

Octopus can consume package feeds from the built-in repository, local and remote NuGet feeds, Maven, JetBrains TeamCity, MyGet and Azure DevOps or TFS Package Management.

Promote a release not in the destination

An example script that will promote a release if it is not in the destination.

Create sanitized database backup

How to create a sanitized database backup to send up to Octopus Support.

Providing database performance metrics

How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.

Record memory snapshots

How to record memory snapshots of your running Octopus Server so we can solve memory issues.

Record a performance trace

How to record a software performance trace of your running Octopus Server so we can solve performance issues.

Best Practices

Some of the best practices you can adopt to set yourself up for success in using Octopus Deploy.

Deployment and Runbook Processes

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring deployment and runbook processes in Octopus Deploy.

Environments, Deployment Targets, and Roles

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring environments, deployment targets, and lifecycles in Octopus Deploy.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

Notifications

Guidelines and recommendations for notifications in Octopus Deploy.

Ongoing Maintenance

Guidelines and recommendations for ongoing maintenance with Octopus Deploy.

Projects and Project Groups Structure

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring projects and project groups in Octopus Deploy.

Step Templates and Script Modules

Guidelines and recommendations for creating re-usable components in Octopus Deploy.

Users, Roles, and Teams

Guidelines and recommendations for managing RBAC in Octopus Deploy.

Variable Recommendations

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring variables in Octopus Deploy.

Offload Work to Workers

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring workers in Octopus Deploy.

Terraform plugin cache

Using plugin caches with Terraform

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