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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.

The Evolution of Auto-Deployments and Event-Sourcing

Octopus 3.4 introduces elastic and transient environments and this post explores the evolution of auto-deployments in this context.

Keeping environments clean

Octopus 3.4 introduces the concept of machine policies which enable the automatic deletion of unavailable machines after a configurable time period has elapsed.

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Script Parameters

Octopus 3.3.21 introduces ability to pass parameters to scripts.

Defining variables in a multi-tenant world

Exploring how to define variables in a multi-tenant world.

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off with links to posts talking about new feature deep dives and the decisions that went in to building them.

Documentation

The Octopus Command Line (CLI)

The Octopus CLI (octo) is the Octopus command line tool that builds on top of the Octopus REST API.

Build information

Pushes build information to Octopus Server.

Clean environments

Using the Octopus CLI to delete/remove machines with a particular status from environments on your Octopus instance.

Clean Worker pool

Cleans all Offline Workers from a Worker Pool

Create auto deployment override

Using the Octopus CLI to create automatic deployment release overrides.

Create channel

Using the Octopus CLI to create channels.

Create environment

Using the Octopus CLI to create environments.

Create project

Using the Octopus CLI to create projects.

Create release

Using the Octopus CLI to create releases.

Create Worker pool

Creates a pool for workers

Delete auto deploy override

Using the Octopus CLI to delete automatic deployment release overrides.

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

Deploy release

Using the Octopus CLI to deploy releases.

Dump deployments

Writes deployments to an XML file that can be imported in Excel.

Export

Using the Octopus CLI to export items from one Octopus Server to import into another.

JSON formatted output

Formatting output from the Octopus CLI

Import

Using the Octopus CLI to import items exported from another Octopus Server.

Octopus CLI Global Tool

Octopus CLI installation

List deployments

List a number of deployments by project, environment or by tenant.

List environments

List environments

List latest deployments

List the releases last-deployed in each environment

List machines

Lists all machines

List projects

Lists all projects

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