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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.

Benefits of isolated tenanted infrastructure

Learn the different ways you can isolate your customers' data and why we recommend isolated infrastructure.

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

Mapping manual deployments with Octopus Deploy

Find out how to map your manual deployments to create a template that helps you start your automation journey.

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus Deploy

Comparing Lean, Agile, and Continuous Delivery

Are Agile and Lean principles still relevant and how do they compare to Continuous Delivery?

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Infrastructure Redesign

The environments are has been revamped into a new Infrastructure area for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

Working at Octopus - a story of silicon and steel

A history of the computers I have enjoyed as a result of the Octopus Deploy computer policy.

Recurring Scheduled Deployments

We are introducing the ability to schedule recurring deployments.

Octopus goes to conferences!

Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.

Using Azure Key Vault with Octopus

Introducing a new step template to allow secrets stored in Azure Key Vault to be used in deployments or runbooks.

Inside DevOps with Jason Dunnivant from Olo

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our first post features Jason Dunnivant, Release Engineer at Olo.

5 Remote Desktop Alternatives

Five alternative Remote Desktop tools

Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.

At the helm with Trish Khoo

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Trish Khoo, our Director of Engineering

The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.

SQL Server deployment options for Octopus Deploy

A brief summary of the most popular SQL Server deployment tools used with Octopus Deploy

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off with links to posts talking about new feature deep dives and the decisions that went in to building them.

Competition: Build the Octopus Library

Help other Octopus users by sharing your reusable step templates

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

Config as Code strategies

Learn good practices for using Config as Code and how to adjust your strategy in different situations.

Best practices for Octopus Spaces

Find out how to use Octopus Spaces effectively.

Coordinating Projects with the Deploy Release Step

We have introduced a new 'Deploy Release' step type which allows coordination between Octopus Projects

Octopus 3.1 will require .NET 4.5

Octopus and Tentacle have always been built against .NET 4.0, but from Octopus 3.1 onwards we'll be building against .NET 4.5.

Packages in Script Steps

As of Octopus 2018.8 Script Steps will have the ability to reference packages

Deploying applications to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a multi-environment Kubernetes cluster and deploy an application to it.
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Documentation

Clustered Listening Tentacles

Configuring the Octopus Tentacle in an active/passive cluster.

Running Tentacle under a specific user account

Information on how to run Tentacle under a specific user account.

Using the Octopus extension

Octopus Deploy and Azure DevOps can work together to make automated, continuous delivery easy.

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