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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.

Exploring the managed instance and space patterns

Learn how to implement the managed instance and space patterns in Octopus

Enterprise deployment patterns reference implementation

Learn how to deploy the example reference implementation demonstrating the enterprise patterns.

Synchronizing projects in managed spaces

Learn how to implement the full lifecycle of projects created as part of the enterprise patterns

Validating Config as Code projects

Learn how to implement automated checks of Config as Code projects during pull requests.

Using the Deploy a Bicep template step

Learn how to configure our new Deploy a Bicep template step

Polling Tentacles over standard HTTPS port

Learn how to use port 443 for Polling Tentacles instead of the non-standard 10943.

Introducing Step Retries

Learn about our new Step Retries feature to combat transient connectivity issues and improve deployment success rates.

Announcing Octopus Deploy 3.0 pre-release

Cloud-nomad architecture

As more organizations rethink their cloud and microservices decisions, it's time for cloud-nomad architectures.

Sourcing Kubernetes manifests from Git

You can now reference YAML configurations from your Git repository in the Deploy raw Kubernetes YAML step.

Modifying Docker images during Kubernetes deployments

With the help of some open source Docker image tools and Kubernetes' mounting options, it’s possible to deploy a single image across multiple environments that include templated files.

Octopus script editor uplift

Find out how we improved the script editor experience in Octopus Deploy.

How to deploy Azure Container Apps

Learn how to deploy Azure Container Apps with Octopus Deploy.

What is multi-tenancy?

We explore the various definitions of the term multi-tenancy.

Why multi-tenancy is a confusing term and what it means to Octopus

Andy looks at why multi-tenancy is a tricky thing to define and how that affected Octopus's messaging.

What are tenanted deployments?

Learn about the benefits and problems of tenanted deployments, plus how Octopus solves those problems.

Introducing Execution Timeouts

Learn about our new Execution Timeouts feature to handle unexpectedly long-running processes.

Dropping support for Windows Server 2003 machines

Octopus Deploy will drop support for targets and Workers running Windows Server 2003 from the 2024.1 release.

Benefits of isolated tenanted infrastructure

Learn the different ways you can isolate your customers' data and why we recommend isolated infrastructure.

Actors vs. RPC: building a new (old) transport layer for Octopus 3.0

Paved versus golden paths in Platform Engineering

Find out the critical difference between paved paths and golden paths in Platform Engineering.

How global tenanted deployments would look without automation

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

How SaaS tenanted deployments would look without automation

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

Inside DevOps with Matt Ash

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Matt Ash, Staff DevOps Engineer at a leading HR software platform provider.

How deployments to physical branches would look without automation

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

Connecting a project to multiple tenants as a bulk action

Learn about our new bulk actions for tenanted deployments in Octopus. Connect a project to multiple tenants and add or clone a new tenant straight from the project page.

Modern rollback strategies

Bob walks you through 3 modern rollback strategies: the 10-minute recovery, 3-minute recovery, and immediate rollback strategy.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report.

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Maven feeds

Configuring Maven repositories as Octopus Feeds

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