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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.

Configuring a GitHub NuGet registry as an external feed

A guide to configuring a GitHub NuGet registry as an external feed for Octopus Deploy.

How we create the Tentacle Army

Before a release of Octopus is published we fire up the Tentacle Army and attempt to break the release. At the moment the Tentacle Army consists of 800 tentacles located in Singapore and Brazil, regions chosen for their high region-to-region latency.

Using Jenkins Pipelines with Octopus

Learn how to trigger Octopus deployments with Jenkins Pipelines

Improving PowerShell compatibility

Java CI/CD: From Continuous Integration to release management

In this post, we link up Jenkins and Octopus to form a CI/CD pipeline.

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.

Spring Boot as a Service

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

Deprecating Mono

Octopus Deploy is planning to drop support for deploying to SSH targets via Mono. Learn why we made this decision and how to move to .NET core.

Using Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

Using Cake’s C# makefiles to script your application build process.

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

The Services Behind Octopus Deploy Ltd

Roles and Upgrades - request for comments

Variable specificity and complexity

Variables can be scoped to multiple values. What's the simplest way to score them?

Documentation

octopus worker ssh create

Create a SSH worker

octopus deployment-target ssh create

Create a SSH deployment target

Legacy Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing legacy versions of Tentacles.

Installing the Octopus CLI as a capability

This guide covers how to add the Octopus CLI as a capability to your Azure DevOps custom build agents.

Terraform

Terraform deployments

Linux Tentacle

How to install and configure Octopus Tentacles on Linux Servers in either listening or polling mode.

Register SSH target

An example script to register an SSH target using the REST API.

Upgrading from Octopus 1.6 to 2.6.5

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 1.6 tp 2.6.5.

Hardening Windows

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

Auto Scaling High Availability Nodes

What to consider if you want to use auto-scaling technology to scale out your Octopus Server High Availability Cluster automatically.

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.

How to get a database backup and encrypt your Master Key

Guides the user on producing a database backup binary file (.bak) and encrypt their Master Key to provide us with.

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