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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.

SSH into a Kubernetes cluster

Learn how to set up a SSH bastion host in your Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes Pod Service Account authentication

Learn how to create a Kubernetes deployment target using the Pod Service Account authentication mode.

What are SBOMs?

Find out what SBOMs are, learn about the US government's Executive Order, and how Octopus can help with your SBOMs.

The ultimate guide to Tomcat deployments

Learn how to create a secure, highly available, load-balanced Tomcat cluster with zero downtime deployments.

Using Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

This post shows you how to use Operations Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.

Octopus 2022 Q3: Safe, reliable, and auditable pipelines

Octopus 2022 Q3 is now available.

New in GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

We updated our GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy with new features and to improve usability. Learn more.

Jira Service Management integration for Octopus Deploy: early access preview

The Octopus Deploy integration for Jira Service Management is now available as an early access preview.

The different types of software tests

Learn why testing is important, read about manual and automated testing, and functional and non-functional testing with examples.

Faster deployments with the Executions API

The Executions API is a new set of endpoints that dramatically improves the performance of operations.

Shaping Config as Code for variables

Learn how customer feedback informed updates to Configuration as Code.

Mapping manual deployments with Octopus Deploy

Find out how to map your manual deployments to create a template that helps you start your automation journey.

Sharing Workers across spaces

Learn methods to easily share Workers between spaces.

The 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report

Find out about the release of the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps report.

April 2015 Community Roundup

Variable use in Octopus Deploy

Find out why it's so hard to see where variables are used.

How to deploy to MuleSoft Runtime using Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy a MuleSoft API to a MuleSoft Runtime.

Building the Octopus CLI vNext

Learn about our plans to build the next version of the Octopus CLI.

At the helm with Harsh Sabikhi

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 Harsh Sabikhi, Senior Vice President, Revenue.

Bulk deletion of Kubernetes resources

Learn how to delete Kubernetes resources like pods in bulk.

Checking Kubernetes pod CPU and memory

Learn how to check a pod's resource usage in Kubernetes.

Using local images with minikube

Learn how to deploy locally built Docker images to minikube.

Documentation

Octopus Cloud Uptime SLO

The uptime SLO for Octopus Cloud instances

First Deployment (2022.2 and below)

This section will walk you through how to configure your first deployment in Octopus Deploy.

Configure Environments

Step by step guide on how to configure environments in Octopus Deploy

Create and Deploy a Release

Step by step guide on how to create and deploy a release in Octopus Deploy

Create a Project

Step by step guide on how to create projects in Octopus Deploy

Defining the deployment process

Step by step guide on how to define a deployment process in Octopus Deploy

API

The Insights API

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