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Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

The first step towards safe production releases... safe dev/test deployments.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions

A post showing how to create a GitHub Action that pushes a package to Octopus.

Real Life DevOps - Representing Internal Environment Names With Target Roles

We can use Target Roles to track tenant specific environment names while using combined Dev / Test / Prod environments in Octopus.

Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

Deploying SQL Server Security with dbatools and Octopus Deploy

A discussion about the challenge of managing SQL Server users and roles, and a script that uses dbatools to version control and deploy them.

Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.

Safe schema updates - Database delivery hell

This post opens a series about safe schema updates with a brief tour through Dante's 9 levels of Database Delivery Hell.

Deploying to Google Cloud Run

Learn how to deploy a container to the Google Cloud Run service.

Announcing GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

You can now integrate your GitHub builds with deployments in Octopus Deploy thanks to our GitHub Actions.

Recurring Scheduled Deployments

We are introducing the ability to schedule recurring deployments.

Verifying backups with Runbooks

Learn how to automate the process of verifying your backups using a custom runbook.

The 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report

Find out about the release of the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps report.

Channels Walkthrough

Supporting advanced deployment scenarios with Octopus Deploy 3.2 and Channels

Re-thinking feature branch deployments

Feature branches should be tested prior to merging into master. All too often, companies have a single static test environment.

How to build a PowerBI report for Octopus Deploy

Learn how to build PowerBI reports for Octopus Deploy that will show you deployment and runbook history in Octopus Deploy.

A first look at Tekton Pipelines

This blog explores Tekton Pipelines and discusses how they fit into the CI/CD ecosystem

Why you should not use Lambda aliases to define environments

There are many approaches to running Lambdas across logical environments, but you need to be wary of the pitfalls when using aliases.

Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates tech problems

On loose coupling and domain-driven development, and how they mitigate technical problems that are commonly associated with monolithic architectures.

Selenium series: Asynchronous Lambdas

In this post, we learn how to launch Lambdas asynchronously from API Gateway

How Octopus complements your build server

Learn how Octopus Deploy complements your choice of build server and completes your CI/CD pipeline.

Smoke testing your infrastructure with runbooks

Learn how to use runbooks to perform high level smoke tests against your applications and infrastructure.
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Documentation

Troubleshooting OctoPack

Troubleshooting NuGet packages and Octopack

Environment recommendations

Environments form the backbone of your deployment pipeline. Here we provide some recommendations for configuring your environments to better prepare you to scale your Octopus Deploy instance up and out as you add more projects.

octopus release deploy

Deploy releases

Hardening Apache

With Octopus Deploy you can harden Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Create Azure Web App target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Web App target

Project recommendations

Projects form a critical element in Octopus Deploy. Here, we cover some recommendations for projects; getting started on the right foot is vital in helping your Octopus Deploy instance scale.

Version automation with Service Fabric application packages

Octopus Deploy can help you automate versioning of your Service Fabric application packages.

Build server integration

Integrate your continuous integration or build server with Octopus Deploy.

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