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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.

Future of Deployment: Nano Server and .NET Core

Nano Server is an extremely small version of Windows Server. .NET Core is a small version of the .NET runtime. Together, I believe they are the future of how applications will run in production.

The key assumption of modern work culture

Find out the key assumption that you must change for your organization to adopt modern culture.

Documentation

octopus package nuget

Package as NuPkg

octopus package nuget create

Create nuget

octopus package zip

Package as zip

octopus package zip create

Create zip

octopus project variables

Manage project variables

octopus project variables create

Create a variable for a project

octopus project variables delete

Delete a project variable

octopus project variables list

List project variables

octopus project variables update

Update the value of a project variable

octopus project variables view

View all values of a project variable

Octopus Tentacle

Octopus Tentacle is a lightweight agent service, available on both Windows and Linux servers to communicate securely with the Octopus Server.

Linux Tentacle

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

Octopus Tentacle in a Container

An Octopus Tentacle instance can be run directly from within a container.

Tentacle communication modes

Tentacles can be configured to communicate with the Octopus Server in Listening or Polling mode.

Troubleshooting Tentacles

How to troubleshoot problems with Octopus Tentacles.

Windows Tentacle

How to install Octopus Tentacles on Windows 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.

Azure virtual machines

The Azure VM Tentacle extension makes it easy to automatically download, install and register a Tentacle with your Octopus Server.

Tentacle VM extension configuration structure

Detailed file format information for the configuration files required for the Azure Tentacle VM Extension

Diagnosing Tentacle VM extension issues

How to diagnose and resolve installation issues with the Tentacle VM Extension

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via an ARM template

How to install the Tentacle VM extension using an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template

Installing the Tentacle via DSC in an ARM template

How to install the Tentacle using Desired State configuration (DSC) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via PowerShell

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the PowerShell

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure CLI

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure Portal

How to install a Tentacle using the Azure VM Extension via the new Azure Portal

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the classic Azure Portal

How to install a Tentacle using the Azure VM extension via the classic Azure Portal

Clustered Listening Tentacles

Configuring the Octopus Tentacle in an active/passive cluster.

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