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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.

Lessons from Crowdstrike’s outage

Lessons and takeaways from Crowdstrike's outage to apply to our development practices.

Introducing Git protections

Git protections add an extra layer of protection when deploying your code. They make sure the right resources get deployed to the right environments.

How to connect an EFS storage class to an EKS cluster

Learn how to connect EFS storage to an EKS cluster and configure it as a storage class.

Webinar: Automating deployments with VSTS and Octopus Deploy

Announcing a webinar with Brian A. Randell and Damian Brady to show the Octopus Deploy extension for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

Autoscaling Octopus workers using Kubernetes

Learn about our new worker that makes it easier to scale your deployment infrastructure. The worker runs on Kubernetes but helps with any deployment tasks to any target.

Creating workers on a Kubernetes cluster

Learn how to create Octopus workers on a Kubernetes cluster using Octopus Deploy.

Inside DevOps with Thiago Marcolino from YLD

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Thiago Marcolino, Platform Engineer from YLD.

Octopus Cloud architecture

Learn how cell-based architecture helped us make Octopus Cloud reliable and scalable.

Integrating ServiceNow and Octopus to increase efficiency: Unily’s story

Unily uses Octopus and ServiceNow to manage complex deployments to all customers. In this post, we dive into Unily’s solution and how the integration helps minimize downtime and increase efficiency.

Prioritizing deployments

Prioritize your deployments. Fast-tracking deployments has never been easier.

Certificates Feature

Announcing the release of the Certificates Feature in Octopus Deploy

Let's talk Licensing

Octopus deploy licenses, renewals and upgrades

RFC: Composite Step Templates

Combine multiple step templates together into a single importable block

Octopus 3.0: Released!

Today we announce the release of Octopus 3.0

Changing website port on each deployment

Blue/green style deployments by varying the port number between each deployment
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Documentation

Support

Information explaining how to perform requested tasks by Octopus support.

Capture a crash dump

How to capture a crash dump to help the Octopus team diagnose problems when something unexpected happens.

Debug problems with Octopus variables

How to debug problems with Octopus variables when a variable used during a deploying is different than the one you expect.

Get the raw output from a deployment process

How to get the raw output from a deployment process to help the Octopus team resolve deployment related issues.

Get the Raw Output From a Task

How to get the raw output from a task to help the Octopus team resolve deployment related issues.

Record a problem with Octopus Deploy in your web browser

This page describes how you can record HTTP traffic between your browser and Octopus Server. This is especially helpful if you are having a problem with Octopus Deploy in your web browser. It includes instructions for taking a screen recording and web traffic capture, for diagnosing issues.

How to turn on variable logging and export the task log

How to turn on variable logging and export the task log to help the Octopus team resolve deployment issues.

Send a secret to Octopus

How to send sensitive information to Octopus support.

Credits

Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.

Process dumps

Octopus Server and Tentacle process dumps

Troubleshooting AWS transport level errors

A guide for troubleshooting AWS Transport Errors.

Log files

Octopus Server and Tentacle log file locations and details.

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