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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.Smoke testing your infrastructure with runbooks
Learn how to use runbooks to perform high level smoke tests against your applications and infrastructure.Defining a target architecture
How to approach defining a target architecture for your software systems.Introducing Octopus Cloud
Octopus Cloud has been a while in the making. In this post we look at how and why Octopus Cloud came to be, and what the future may look likeWhat is the difference between blue/green and red/black deployments?
The term blue/green and red/black are used to describe deployment strategies, but do they mean different things?The 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report
Find out about the release of the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps report.October Community Roundup
A summary of blogs and community events for October 2015Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET
Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.Inside DevOps with Fabio Segredo from Glintt Global
A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Fabio Segredo of Glintt Global.How we work. Some recent lessons
Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed teamA look at the new NGINX VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources
See the features of the new custom resource definitions introduced with the NGINX v1.5 ingress controller.My First Year Working at Octopus
Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore
An adventure in build tools and Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applicationsHow we work - 2016 edition
An update on how we work as a team to build and support Octopus.Negotiating with the gatekeepers
Building trust relationships between humans is rarely as simple as comparing thumbprints.Fast track code promotion in your CI/CD pipeline
Learn how to use pre-approved deployment pipelines to rapidly promote code into productionNew 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.Behind the scenes of the Octopus Extension for GitHub Copilot
Learn how we integrated Azure AI and Copilot when making the Octopus extension.Safe schema updates - Resilient vs robust IT systems
Learn about the nature of failure in complex IT systems, and the benefits and drawbacks of designing for resilience vs robustness.Deploying a Java web app with a MySQL backend through Octopus Deploy
This post demonstrates how to deploy a Java web application that uses a MySQL backend using Octopus Deploy.Implementing DevSecOps to respond to vulnerabilities
As part of our series about Runbooks, learn how to configure your CI/CD pipeline to quickly identify and respond to vulnerabilities.Deploying TeamCity to Kubernetes using Octopus Deploy
Learn how to spin up a build server on demand using Octopus Deploy and KubernetesThe DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book
Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.The state of config file formats: XML vs. YAML vs. JSON vs. HCL
Learn about the different configuration file formats that are available and when you should use them.Java deployments to Tomcat with YAML and XML configuration file replacements
Learn how to take advantage of the XML, YAML, and Properties configuration file replacement when deploying Java applications.Introduction to HCL and HCL tooling
Learn about the different tooling you can use with HCL.Deploying to Oracle with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase
Learn how to deploy to Oracle using Octopus Deploy and Liquibase.Runbook lessons learned and recommendations
Recommendations from lessons learned on how to design and implement runbooksRFC: Azure Service Fabric support
This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus Deploy
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