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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.

Ask Octopus Episode 12 - Environment Approval Gates, Worker Pools Per Environment

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Ask Octopus Episodes 40-42 - Data Migration, installing the Linux Tentacle & connecting on-premise servers to Octopus Cloud.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have received and how we went about solving them.

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.

New in 2.0: Sensitive variables

Sensitive variables are a great way to securely manage passwords, API keys and connection strings that are needed for deployment

New in 2.0: Polling Tentacles

Tentacle can be configured to use polling mode, which polls the Octopus Server asking for jobs to do.

Deploying containers to AWS Fargate

Learn how to deploy containers in the Elastic Container Registry to Elastic Container Services Fargate

How we create the Tentacle Army

Before a release of Octopus is published we fire up the Tentacle Army and attempt to break the release. At the moment the Tentacle Army consists of 800 tentacles located in Singapore and Brazil, regions chosen for their high region-to-region latency.

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

New in 2.0: Configurable Dashboards

The Octopus dashboard can now be customized to include only the projects/environments that you care about

New in 2.0: Library variable sets

Library variable sets are a new feature that let you share settings between projects

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?

What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?

KCDC and NDC 2013: Jeff French on TeamCity and Octopus Deploy

Jeff French has a great presentation coming up on continuous delivery of complex applications with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, which he'll be doing at the KCDC and NDC 2013.

Future of Deployment: Nano Server and .NET Core

Nano Server is an extremely small version of Windows Server. .NET Core is a small version of the .NET runtime. Together, I believe they are the future of how applications will run in production.

Octopus 2021 Q3: Google Cloud support with centralized Kubernetes deployments and runbooks

Octopus 2021 Q3: Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, Workato, LDAP, and new Octostache filters.

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus Deploy
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Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Retention policies

Retention policies allow you to specify the releases, packages and files you want to keep as well as the ones you want cleaned up.

Dynamic Worker pools

Dynamic Worker pools are used in our cloud product to dynamically create and assign workers to running tasks. This page describes how dynamic worker pools work.

How High Availability Works

Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

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