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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.

Creating an Octopus Deploy step template

Learn how to create a custom step template in Octopus Deploy

Contributing a step template to the Octopus Deploy Community Library

Learn how to submit a custom step template to the Octopus Deploy Community Library

Managing AWS costs with Instance Scheduler

Learn how to deploy and configure the Instance Scheduler to shutdown unused AWS resources.

Using the Octopus API with Bash and jq

Learn how to work with the Octopus API using Bash and jq.

Verifying backups with Runbooks

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

Lessons learned porting Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1

We ported Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1 to unlock the ability to run on Linux, Docker Containers, and Kubernetes. This post shares lessons learned along the way.

Using Docker as a package manager

This post demonstrates how Docker is a convenient solution for downloading and running many CLI tools.

Bitbucket Pipelines: Pipes and integrating with Octopus Deploy

What are Bitbucket Pipes, and how can you integrate them into your Bitbucket Pipeline with Octopus Deploy?

Installing WildFly From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of WildFly.

Integrating docker-compose steps with Octopus Deploy

Performing docker-compose is easy with the new script running capabilities

Deploy .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus

Learn how to deploy your .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus.

CloudFormation, WildFly and Deploying Maven Artifacts

Take a look at how you can tie together a number of the new features from recent releases to deploy Java apps to the cloud.

Kubernetes RFC

We are designing Kubernetes support for Octopus, and we would love your input.

Continuous Delivery for PowerShell Modules using Octopus Deploy and TakoFukku

Learn how to deploy PowerShell Modules to the PowerShell Gallery automatically using Octopus Deploy

Deploying to SQL Server with Entity Framework Core - Will it Deploy? Episode 3

We try to automate the deployment of a SQL Server Database using Entity Framework Core to manage our database structure and data.

Octopus Deploy 1.1

Spring Boot as a Service

Learn how to deploy Spring Boot fully executable JAR files to EC2 Linux instances as services

Continuous Delivery for .NET Core using Octopus Deploy and Bitbucket Pipelines

Learn how to use Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines to automatically build, test and deploy .NET core apps on code commits using Octopus Deploy

Deploying to SQL Server with a DACPAC - Will it Deploy? Episode 4

We try to automate the deployment of a SQL Server Database using a Data-tier Application Package (DACPAC) to manage our database structure and data.

Deploying and consuming ZIP files from Maven

Learn how to deploy ZIP files to Maven and consume them in an Octopus project.

Documentation

Hardening Apache

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

Updating Linux

With Octopus Deploy you can update and patch Linux machines with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

With Octopus Deploy you can install Tomcat on Ubuntu with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Configure Octopus Deploy project

This guide describes how to configure your Octopus project to deploy an ASP.NET Core project together with an Angular CLI project and configuring NGINX to a Linux deployment target.

Deploying Node applications to Linux

Learn how to package and deploy a Node.js application to a Linux deployment target over an SSH connection.

Using a Managed Service Account (MSA)

Run Octopus using a Managed Service Account.

Installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing the Octopus Server.

SQL Server Database

Information about using SQL Server Database with Octopus Deploy.

Troubleshooting the Octopus installation

Troubleshooting steps for installing Octopus Deploy

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