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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.

How to structure your Git repository for DevOps automation

Learn how to structure your Git repositories to store your scripts, infrastructure as code configuration files, application configuration files, docs and more.

Inside DevOps with Brandon Moore

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Brandon Moore, Senior Software Developer in the power industry.

Announcing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud is now generally available!

Thoughts from my User Experience Journey

Thoughts and takeaways from my recent journey with the Onboarding team, diving further into user-experience.

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.

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.

Runbooks best practices

This post provides a step by step template you can use to generate high quality runbooks in Octopus.

SQL Server deployment options for Octopus Deploy

A brief summary of the most popular SQL Server deployment tools used with Octopus Deploy

Shaping Configuration as Code

We've been busy recently building Configuration as Code support for Octopus Deploy. Learn about some of the factors that shaped this feature.

The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.

Migrating 426 Nancy API endpoints to ASP.NET Core controllers

We migrated Octopus Deploy to a more standardized way of writing an API, using ASP.NET controllers. Learn about our implementation strategy: Derisk, Enable, Finish.

Featured Step Template: HTTP - Test URL

Test that a URL responds at the end of a deployment

5 Remote Desktop Alternatives

Five alternative Remote Desktop tools

Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates human problems

On loose coupling and domain-driven development, and how they mitigate human problems that are commonly associated with monolithic architectures.

TeamCity 9 plugin compatibility

Why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment

Find out why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment, plus the ways how.

Inside DevOps with Stephen Shamakian

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our next post features Stephen Shamakian, DevOps Senior Principal Engineer.

Choosing a container platform

A look at different container platforms and their suitability.

Inside DevOps with Dale Francis from Climavision

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Dales Francis, Director, Product Development at Climavision.

Inside DevOps with Matt Ash

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Matt Ash, Staff DevOps Engineer at a leading HR software platform provider.

Inside DevOps with Anton Zagrebelny from Stigg

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Anton Zagrebelny from Stigg.

The difference between day-0, day-1, and day-2 operations

We break down the difference between the 3 major phases of operations in DevOps.

Continuous Delivery for PowerShell Modules using Octopus Deploy and TakoFukku

Learn how to deploy PowerShell Modules to the PowerShell Gallery automatically using Octopus Deploy

Running task cap and High Availability

Very soon we'll be launching Octopus: High Availability (HA) edition. To prepare for High Availability, we're making a few changes which will make it easier to manage Octopus server workloads.

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Octopus Workers and Performance

Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performance

Better Octopus Integration with Azure DevOps

We recently updated our Azure DevOps extension, and it has some great new features that can improve your delivery pipeline.

Operations Runbooks: Putting the Ops in DevOps

Operations Runbooks put the Ops in DevOps and automate routine maintenance and emergency operations (incident response) tasks.

Documentation

Using variables in scripts

With Octopus you can define variables for use with your custom scripts.

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