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Ask Octopus Episode 11 - Automatically Cancel Tasks, Progression Prevention and Compliance

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

Raising the minimum requirements for hosting and using Octopus Server

In 2020, we will raise the minimum requirements for hosting and using Octopus Server.

Difference between docker.io, docker-cd, and Docker Desktop

Learn which version of Docker to install for your operating system.

Octopus Deploy acquires Codefresh

Paul explains why he's so excited about Codefresh joining Octopus, what we love about the Codefresh team, and why we think this is excellent news for our customers, Codefresh customers, and the Argo open-source community.

Using the Azure custom script extension for complex installations

A deep dive into the Azure custom script extension for Windows VMs

What are the benefits of using NGINX Unit?

What features does NGINX Unit have that make it an attractive solution for modern deployments?

Connect an AWS Account to Octopus Deploy

This post provides a step by step guide for connecting an AWS account to Octopus Deploy.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Deploying to Google Cloud Functions

Learn how to deploy functions to the Google Cloud Platform.

How to install Jenkins on Windows and Linux

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via the traditional installers.

Top 8 container registries

There are many container registry services, suitable for all different kinds of teams. We look at the top 8 and why you might consider them.

Microservices and frameworks

An overview of microservices and the different frameworks you can use to support them.

Selenium series: running tests against BrowserStack

In this post, we learn how to run tests against the BrowserStack service.

Expanding the use of execution containers

Octopus 2024.1 added the ability to use an inline Dockerfile or a URL to a Git repository to build the Docker container used for a deployment.

Choosing a container platform

A look at different container platforms and their suitability.

The difference between ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer Kubernetes services

Learn the differences between the 3 kinds of Kubernetes services, ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer.

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

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.

Introduction to HCL and HCL tooling

Learn about the different tooling you can use with HCL.

Deploy a Helm chart with Octopus

Learn how to deploy a sample Helm chart to Kubernetes with Octopus

Contributing a step template to the Octopus Deploy Community Library

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

Octopus Deploy 2019.11: Operations Runbooks RTW

Octopus 2019.11 introduces our Runbooks platform for automating operations tasks with support for scheduling, permissions, parameterized runs and more.
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Documentation

Installing the Tentacle via DSC in an ARM template

How to install the Tentacle using Desired State configuration (DSC) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Azure DevOps

Octopus Deploy integrates with Azure DevOps to provide for a full automated build and deployment pipeline.

Connecting projects

By connecting tenants to projects, you can control which projects will be deployed into which environments for each tenant.

AWS

Octopus Deploy provides built-in support for deploying to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

IIS websites and application pools

Octopus has built-in support for configuring IIS web sites, applications and virtual directories.

Emergency operations

This section includes examples of how to use runbooks to help automate disaster recovery operations.

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