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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.

Smoke testing your infrastructure with runbooks

Learn how to use runbooks to perform high level smoke tests against your applications and infrastructure.

What is CNAB?

A look at the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification, what problems it solves, and the pros and cons of the tooling.

Cloud-nomad architecture

As more organizations rethink their cloud and microservices decisions, it's time for cloud-nomad architectures.

From zero to Octopus hero - Octopus features and integrations

Join Sarah as she continues to learn more about Octopus, this time looking at Octopus Deploy's features, plus integrations with other tools.

What does Microsoft deprecating Azure Service Management APIs mean for Octopus Users?

As Azure begin to deprecate their Azure Service Management APIs, this has knock-on effects for Octopus Users. Although Cloud Service deployments will keep working, Azure Certificate Management Accounts will no longer provide such a rich UX experience.

The difference between day-0, day-1, and day-2 operations

We break down the difference between the 3 major phases of operations in DevOps.

From zero to Octopus hero - Discovering DevOps

Join Sarah as she continues to learn about Octopus Deploy, this time focusing on DevOps.

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.

Using Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

Using Cake’s C# makefiles to script your application build process.

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.

Adding notifications for every production deployment

An introductory guide to using subscriptions with webhooks.

Deploying TeamCity to Kubernetes using Octopus Deploy

Learn how to spin up a build server on demand using Octopus Deploy and Kubernetes

Deploy to Oracle Database using Octopus Deploy and Redgate

Octopus Deploy supports many database tools. Follow along as we get a CI/CD pipeline built to deploy a database change to an Oracle Database

Performing canary deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to use the Voyager ingress controller to implement canary deployments in Kubernetes

Improvements to Adding a Deployment Target Experience and Interface

Learn about some recent UI changes around deployment targets and why we made them.

Octopus presenting at WinOps 2018 London

Derek Campbell will be presenting at the WinOps 2018 event this month in London on how Octopus Deploy enables a successful DevOps journey.

Documentation

Service Fabric PowerShell scripts

Service Fabric PowerShell scripts allow you to manage your Service Fabric clusters using the Service Fabric SDK as part of your deployment process.

Variable filters

Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.

Docker Container Registry

A Docker Registry is treated in Octopus Deploy as a feed that supplies images that are run as containers on a Docker Engine host.

Deployment targets

How to configure deployment targets in Octopus

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Azure Cloud Service targets

Azure Cloud Service deployment targets allow you to reference existing classic Cloud Services in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Azure Service Fabric cluster targets

Azure Service Fabric Cluster deployment targets allow you to reference existing Service Fabric Cluster apps that are available in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Azure Web App targets

Azure Web App deployment targets allow you to reference existing Web Apps in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Cloud regions

Cloud regions deployment targets allow steps to be executed multiple times to support deploying cloud applications in numerous geographic regions.

Dynamic infrastructure

Octopus resources created in cloud providers can also be modeled in Octopus using service messages and scripts, which form part of dynamic infrastructure.

Create Azure Service Principal account command

New-OctopusAzureServicePrincipalAccount allows you to create an Azure Service Principal account in Octopus from within a running deployment

Create Azure Cloud Service target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Cloud Service target

Create Azure Service Fabric target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Service Fabric target

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