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Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Deploy Release Page Redesign

The Deploy Release page has been redesigned as part of Octopus version 4.0

Automating developer machine setup with Chocolatey

Learn how to automate a developer machine setup using Chocolatey

Creating AMI mappings for CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to create region AMI mappings for use with CloudFormation templates.

Octopus 1.4 with updating variables, cloning projects and other fixes

Octopus 1.4 includes the ability to update release variables, clone projects and disabling machines.

Introducing Octopus security advisories

Updating the way we keep our customers informed about product security

Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

Using Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

Using Cake’s C# makefiles to script your application build process.

Safe schema updates - Resilient vs robust IT systems

Learn about the nature of failure in complex IT systems, and the benefits and drawbacks of designing for resilience vs robustness.

RFC - Cloud and Infrastructure Automation Support

My First Year Working at Octopus

Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy to MongoDB using Liquibase.

An Octopus Christmas Carol

A look at Octopus in 2022 through the lens of deployments past, present, and yet to come

Paved versus golden paths in Platform Engineering

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

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

How recent SHA1 collision attack discoveries impact Octopus, and PowerShell scripts to detect if you use SHA1 certificates

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Infrastructure Redesign

The environments are has been revamped into a new Infrastructure area for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

Deploy a Helm chart with Octopus

Learn how to deploy a sample Helm chart to Kubernetes with Octopus

Documentation

Azure account variables

Create an Azure account variable to use it in Azure deployment steps

octopus release deploy

Deploy releases

Find variable usage

An example script that finds usages of a variable, searching in project variables, and optionally deployment processes and runbooks.

Find library variable set variables usage

An example script that loads variables from a library variable set and finds usages in project variables, and optionally deployment processes and runbooks.

Azure environments

Information on how to use alternate Azure environments.

Region specific workers

Use workers in specific regions

Create Azure Service Principal account command

New-OctopusAzureServicePrincipalAccount allows you to create an Azure Service Principal account in Octopus from within a running deployment

SHA1 "Shattered" collision and Octopus Deploy

How the SHA1 "Shattered" Collision impacts Octopus Deploy

Multi-tenant regions

A guide showing you how to use tenants to deploy an application to regions using different release rings in Octopus Deploy.

Tenant infrastructure

Add tenants to infrastructure as part of a multi-tenant region setup in Octopus Deploy.

Deploying to a Release Ring

Deploy a release based on tenant tag.

Manage Tenants and Tag sets

Manage tenants and tag sets as part of a multi-tenant region setup in Octopus Deploy.

Kubernetes

Octopus Deploy provides support for deploying Kubernetes resources.

ASP.NET Core webapp

This guide covers everything you need to perform your first ASP.NET Core webapp deployment.

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