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Automating developer machine setup with Chocolatey

Learn how to automate a developer machine setup using Chocolatey

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.

DevOps versus SDLC

Find out if the software development life cycle still has a place in the DevOps era.

Inside DevOps with Jason Dunnivant from Olo

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our first post features Jason Dunnivant, Release Engineer at Olo.

Octopus enterprise deployment patterns

Learn the common deployment strategies enterprise teams can adopt with Octopus.

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

Introducing Octopus security advisories

Updating the way we keep our customers informed about product security

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.

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

Using Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

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

Synchronizing projects in managed spaces

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

Performing canary deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to use the Voyager ingress controller to implement canary deployments in Kubernetes

Selenium series: Exposing Gherkin steps

In this post, we investigate the regular expressions that make up complex Gherkin steps

Selenium series: capturing HAR files

In this post, we learn how to capture HAR files through BrowserStack.

Announcing Codefresh steps for Octopus Deploy

You can now integrate your Codefresh builds with deployments in Octopus Deploy thanks to our Codefresh steps. Learn how the new steps improve your deployment experience.

Platform Engineering should be part of DevOps

Find out why Platform Engineering is more likely to succeed with DevOps than without it.

The new DevOps performance clusters

Explains the changes and additions to performance clusters in The State of DevOps Report 2022.

Documentation

Disaster recovery

How to work with your data and disaster recovery in an Octopus Cloud instance.

Azure Cloud Services

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments to Azure Cloud Services.

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Azure Cloud Service targets

Azure Cloud Service deployment targets allow you to reference existing classic Cloud Services in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Create Azure Service Principal account command

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

Create Azure Cloud Service target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Cloud Service target

Create Azure Service Fabric target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Service Fabric target

Create Azure Web App target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Web App target

Create Kubernetes Target Command

Cmdlet for creating a Kubernetes target

Deployment targets

How to configure deployment targets in Octopus

Credits

Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.

Maven feeds

Configuring Maven repositories as Octopus Feeds

Managing Octopus subscriptions

Control Center is where you manage your Octopus subscriptions and their associated user access.

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