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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.

Ask Octopus Episode 28-30 - JSON configuration substitution, Octopus server as cattle & Active Directory breaking changes.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten and how we went about solving them.

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 a Selenium WebDriver test framework

Learn how to create a WebDriver project in Java with this blog series.

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.

Lessons learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Some of the lessons I learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Running Octopus Deploy inside a container

The Octopus Deploy Docker image makes it a simple process to provision a new Octopus Server instance.

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Docker Engine in Octopus Deploy

Simple Docker Engine commands are now available in Octopus Deploy for testing and feedback

Rolling back a Kubernetes deployment

Learn how to rollback an application deployed to Kubernetes.

Maintaining your own version of the Azure CLI

Learn how to manage your own version of the Azure CLI and why we no longer support tooling.

Installing WildFly From Scratch

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

Using the Azure custom script extension for complex installations

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

Manually push build information to Octopus

This post describes how to manually push build information to Octopus so you can see your commits and issues/work items alongside your deployments.

Webinar - The Right Way to Integrate Octopus Deploy with Azure Pipelines

Learn how to create your own end-to-end model for implementing an automated DevOps pipeline.

Reflections on 2017

A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update

Festive Tech Calendar - Octopus hackathon

Get involved with the Octopus Deploy hackathon and you could win one of three Octopus swag bundles.

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.

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.

WinOps 2019 - Octopus talk and workshop

We’re at WinOps 2019, and we’re running a workshop on Turbocharging your CI/CD pipeline and a talk on Turbocharging Azure DevOps with Octopus Deploy.
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Documentation

Java error messages and troubleshooting

Java deployment steps include a number of unique error codes that may be displayed in the output if there was an error

SSH target

Configuring Linux servers as SSH deployment targets in Octopus.

API

The Insights API

Scheduled runbook triggers

Scheduled runbook triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your runbook that will cause an automatic runbook run to environments of your choosing.

Trend indicators

Insights helps spot performance trends

Workers

External workers are machines that can execute steps that don't need to be performed on the Octopus Server or deployment targets.

Retention policies

Retention policies allow you to specify the releases, packages and files you want to keep as well as the ones you want cleaned up.

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