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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.

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Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing the latest version of Tentacle.

Set Master Key

Sets the new master key in the config after rotation.

migrate

Imports data from an Octopus 2.6 backup

Version

Shows the version information for this release of the Octopus Migrator

Check services

 Checks the Octopus instances are running

Create instances

 Registers a new instance of the Octopus service

Delete instances

 Deletes an instance of the Octopus service

Export certificates

Exports the certificate that Octopus Server can use to authenticate itself with its Tentacles

Regenerate certificates

 Regenerate one or more of the certificates that Octopus uses

Run

 Starts the Octopus Server in debug mode.

version

Show the Tentacle version information

List instances

Lists all installed Octopus instances

Show Master Key

 Print the server's Master Encryption Key, so that it can be backed up

Show thumbprint

 Shows the thumbprint of the server instance

Version

Show the Octopus Server version information

Check services

Checks the Tentacle instances are running

Delete instance

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to delete an instance of the Tentacle service.

List instances

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to query Tentacle settings.

New certificate

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to create and install a new certificate for this Tentacle.

Polling proxy

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure the HTTP proxy used by polling Tentacles to reach the Octopus Server.

Poll server

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure the Octopus Server this Tentacle will poll.

Proxy

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure the HTTP proxy used by Octopus.

Deregister from

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to deregister a deployment target from an Octopus Server.

Deregister Worker

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to deregister a Worker from an Octopus Server.

Extract

Extracts a NuGet package

Import certificate

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to replace the certificate that Tentacle uses to authenticate itself.

Configure

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure Tentacle settings.

Create instance

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to register a new instance of the Tentacle service.

Watchdog

 Configure a scheduled task to monitor the Octopus service(s).

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