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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.

Actors vs. RPC: building a new (old) transport layer for Octopus 3.0

New in GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

We updated our GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy with new features and to improve usability. Learn more.

The new DevOps performance clusters

Explains the changes and additions to performance clusters in The State of DevOps Report 2022.

New in GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v3

We shipped the third version of GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy with new features. Learn how the new actions improve your deployment experience.

What's new in the Octopus navigation UI

An overview of the changes brought about by our navigation update.

Video: What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.4 (Webinar)

Recording of a webinar about the new features in Octopus 2.4, including step templates and PowerShell modules.

New feature: auditing and history

Spaces - A new way to organize your Octopus Server

An introduction to Spaces.

New in Azure DevOps for Octopus Deploy v6

Find out what's new in v6 of the Octopus Azure DevOps plugin and why we made the changes.

Creating dynamic run conditions with new Octostache filters

Learn how to use new filters in Octostache with variable run conditions.

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

Using the new ECS deployment step

Learn how to implement the new ECS deployment step.

New in 2.0: Polling Tentacles

Tentacle can be configured to use polling mode, which polls the Octopus Server asking for jobs to do.

New in 2.0: Configurable Dashboards

The Octopus dashboard can now be customized to include only the projects/environments that you care about

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

What's new in Octopus 2.1

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

New logo

Octopus Deploy now has a new logo, designed by Corey Ginnivan

What's new in Octopus 2.3

Deploy to specific machines, audit log filtering, prompted variables, and more

How we think about creating new architecture

Creating a new architecture can be daunting. Find out how we approach creating new architecture within Octopus, with real examples to tame complexity and achieve success.

New Home for Octopus Documentation

After our documentation hosting provider went under, we decided to change where we host our docs.

New in 2.0: Library variable sets

Library variable sets are a new feature that let you share settings between projects

New in 2.0: Windows Service deployment

Octopus 2.0 can install and start Windows Services during deployment

What's new in Octopus 2.2

PowerShell console, PowerShell conventions, and IIS bindings

Documentation

Upgrade with a new server instance

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

Creating new tenants

Create tenants as part of a multi-tenant SaaS setup in Octopus Deploy.

Creating new infrastructure

Create infrastructure for each tenant used as part of a multi-tenant SaaS setup in Octopus Deploy.

Creating new tenant tags

Create tenant tags as part of a multi-tenant SaaS setup in Octopus Deploy.

New Octopus Target Command

Function for creating an Octopus target for a step package

Create and publish a new runbook snapshot

An example script to create and publish a new runbook snapshot

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