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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.

Deploying Certificates to WildFly

Learn how to deploy certificates from Octopus to WildFly to enable HTTPS support

Deploying Certificates to Tomcat

Learn how to deploy certificates from Octopus to Tomcat to enable HTTPS support

Octopus Deploy Java Support RFC

Our plans to support Java as a first class citizen in Octopus Deploy

Introducing the Beta Migration Tool

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

Learn how to build and configure a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun and development purposes.

Linux worker for PowerShell templates

Using a Linux worker to run Step Templates written in PowerShell.

Octopus 2.0 Guided Failures: RFC

Infrastructure as code with Terraform for developers

Learn about infrastructure as code and Terraform for developers.

Testing Terraform code

Learn how to test Terraform code.

Creating an Octopus Deploy step template

Learn how to create a custom step template in Octopus Deploy

Contributing a step template to the Octopus Deploy Community Library

Learn how to submit a custom step template to the Octopus Deploy Community Library

Totaljobs Group’s journey from VBScript hell to Continuous Deployment nirvana

IIS and Windows Service Steps including Virtual Directory support

We have added support for deploying to Virtual Directories and new specific deployment steps for IIS and Windows Services

Perceptual consistency in RavenDB

An approach to simulating consistency in RavenDB

How to build a PowerBI report for Octopus Deploy

Learn how to build PowerBI reports for Octopus Deploy that will show you deployment and runbook history in Octopus Deploy.

RFC: X.509 Certificate Management

Request For Comment on proposed X.509 Certificate Management

Encryption in Octopus Deploy 2.0

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

Proper scrutiny is important, but CABs are an inefficient and ineffective way to scrutinize.

Octopus 2.0: Bound fields UX

Using Octopus Subscriptions

Subscriptions let you subscribe to events so you can be notified when things are happening in your world of Octopus!

Tips to avoid duplicating deployment steps

Documentation

Jenkins Pipeline projects

Managing Octopus steps in a Jenkins pipeline project.

Octopus reporting with an excel template

Octopus reporting with an excel template

Report on deployments using SQL

How to report on deployments using Excel & XML

Run a runbook

Using the Octopus CLI to run a runbook.

Isolated Octopus Servers

Working with isolated Octopus Servers due to infrastructure or governance requirements.

Rancher Kubernetes cluster

How to configure a Rancher Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus

OpenShift Kubernetes cluster

How to configure an OpenShift Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus.

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