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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.

At the helm with Shipra Mahindra

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Shipra Mahindra, Senior Product Manager.

Why we chose Kubernetes, Linux, and .NET Core for Octopus Cloud

A reflection on the architectural options we considered for hosting Octopus Cloud v2.

How global tenanted deployments would look without automation

We explore how difficult global tenanted deployments would be if we didn't have automation.

At the helm with Michael Richardson

This post opens a series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on improve the product, and more. First is Michael Richardson, our original product management leader.

In Octopus 3.0, we're switching from RavenDB to SQL Server

How we use SQL Server as a Document Store

18 months ago we switched from RavenDB to SQL Server, but we kept using SQL as if it were a document store. This post goes into some detail about how our database works.

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x is easier than you think

Why and how to upgrade from Octopus 3.x.

Integration 101: Octopus and Build Servers

A brief introduction on how to approach your brand new integration between Octopus and your Build Server

Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore

An adventure in build tools and Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications

Leveraging Multi-Tenancy to create team and developer sandboxes

The software we write often has dependencies on other team's applications. Learn how you can use the multi-tenancy feature in Octopus Deploy to carve out sandboxes for each team.

The 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 runbooks

RFC: Azure Service Fabric support

This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus Deploy

Integrating Octopus and Grafana

Learn how to use the Octopus Grafana datasource plugin to visualize your deployments

Deconstructing blue/green deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to manually implement blue/green deployments in Kubernetes and Octopus.

Exposing Octopus variables to a Kubernetes container

Learn how to use the envFrom feature in Kubernetes to pass groups of variables to a container.

Creating multi-environment Kubernetes deployments

Learn how to securely deploy across multiple environments in a single Kubernetes cluster

Octopus 2020.5: Solid improvements and Config as Code update

Octopus 2020.5 introduces support for self-signed certificates, GitHub container registry support, Kubernetes and Terraform improvements and more.

Documentation

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.

Administration

Octopus administration tasks and command reference.

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.

High Availability

Octopus High Availability (HA) enables you to run multiple Octopus Server nodes, distributing load and tasks between them.

How to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

A how-to guide on how to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

Creating a test instance

A guide on how to create a test instance with Octopus Deploy

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