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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.

Azure VM extension for Octopus Deploy

Deploy .NET applications directly to Azure VM's using our Tentacle agent extension.

New in 2.0: Sensitive variables

Sensitive variables are a great way to securely manage passwords, API keys and connection strings that are needed for deployment

June Community Roundup

What's new in Octopus 2.1

Built-in NuGet repository, guest access, variable improvements and multiple instance management

Octopus 3.0: Released!

Today we announce the release of Octopus 3.0

Octopus integration with TFS Build vNext

Running task cap and High Availability

Very soon we'll be launching Octopus: High Availability (HA) edition. To prepare for High Availability, we're making a few changes which will make it easier to manage Octopus server workloads.

Wizards, dialogs and context menus, or build servers and scripts?

Reflecting on the benefits of continuous integration tools, I'm wondering whether our focus on great CI support has meant Octopus is too hard to simply get started with. How can we improve the getting started story?

Automating Octopus with Azure Functions

Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.

Empower your team with self-service application deployments

Self-service deployments allow more members of your team to deploy to pre-production environments, but there are some things to consider.

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Deploying to Tomcat from Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to Tomcat hosted on a Linux server with Octopus Deploy

What's new in Octopus 2.4

Step templates, script modules, a new Library tab - a ton of new features!

Deploying a Ruby web application

Learn how to deploy a Ruby web application using Octopus Deploy.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Using the WildFly CLI

Learn how to use the WildFly CLI to query and configure a WildFly application server.

Kubernetes Pod Service Account authentication

Learn how to create a Kubernetes deployment target using the Pod Service Account authentication mode.

Octopus Deploy Release 4.0

Octopus Deploy 4.0 includes a great new UI refresh and a great user experience!

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

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

Documentation

Diagnostics

Octopus diagnostics includes a system integrity check to ensure the system's database schema and data are correct.

Download Runbook Artifact

An example script to download a runbook artifact to a specified location.

Environment permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to a specific permission for a specific environment.

Update variable set variable value

An example script that loads variables from a variable set, looks for a match and replaces the variable value.

Capture and export a HAR file

How to capture a HAR file to help the Octopus team diagnose problems when something unexpected happens.

Tenants

Tenants allow you to easily create customer specific deployment pipelines without duplicating project configuration.

Multi-tenant deployment guides

Guides showing you how to use the multi-tenancy feature in Octopus for common scenarios.

Multi-tenant regions

A guide showing you how to use tenants to deploy an application to regions using different release rings in Octopus Deploy.

Tenant infrastructure

Add tenants to infrastructure as part of a multi-tenant region setup in Octopus Deploy.

Creating the tenants

Create the tenants needed as part of the multi-tenant region setup in Octopus Deploy.

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