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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.

Providing environment specific configuration for JavaScript projects

Whether it's a React, Angular, or NodeJS application, you often need configuration to be supplied that differs from one environment to the next. The safest way to accomplish this is to make use of your deployment tooling.

Octopus Cloud: Now with Static IPs

Simplify your Octopus Cloud networking and firewall configuration with a static IP address today.

Spaces - A new way to organize your Octopus Server

An introduction to Spaces.

What are your deployment automation roadblocks?

We're going to run some webinars to try to help people get started with automation.

Introducing our first release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS

Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS is the first release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

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.

Documentation

Octopus Cloud

How to work with Octopus Cloud.

Permissions

Octopus Cloud includes permissions that relate to hosting Octopus itself, and not for the configuration of your instance, as that's managed by Octopus for you.

Static IP address

How to find the list of static IP addresses for your Octopus Cloud instance

Linux targets

Configuring Linux servers as deployment targets in Octopus.

SSH deployments

Deploying software to Linux and Unix deployment targets.

Sudo commands

Useful sudo commands to help you with your deployments to SSH Targets.

Upgrading a modern version of Octopus

Everything you need to know about upgrading a modern version of Octopus.

Upgrading old versions of Octopus

Everything you need to know to upgrade an older version of Octopus to a modern version.

Upgrading from Octopus 1.6 to 2.6.5

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 1.6 tp 2.6.5.

Upgrading from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Backup v2.6 database

Information on how to backup an Octopus 2.6 database.

In place upgrade (Install Over 2.6.5)

Information on how to do an in-place upgrade to Octopus 2018.10 LTS from Octopus 2.6.5.

Manual upgrade

Information on how to manually upgrade to Octopus 2018.10 LTS from Octopus 2.6.5.

Migrating data from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Information on how to migrate your data from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS.

Minimize the data-migration time

Tips to minimize the time taken to migrate your data from Octopus 2.6 to 2018.10 LTS

Troubleshooting

Solutions to common problems when upgrading to Octopus 2018.10 LTS from Octopus 2.6.

Upgrade with a new server instance

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.6.5 to a new Octopus instance.

Upgrading from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.x to 2.6.5.

Data

Managing data in Octopus Deploy

Backup and restore

Information on where Octopus data is stored and how to backup and restore an Octopus instance.

Data Migration

Octopus comes with a data migrator which can help in certain scenarios like moving projects from one Octopus Server to another, and exporting your configuration for auditing in a source control repository.

Octopus database

Octopus uses a Microsoft SQL Server Database to store environments, projects, variables, releases, and deployment history.

Changing the collation of the Octopus database

Information on changing the collation of the Octopus SQL Server Database.

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