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Trying Raw Octopus

Raw scripting and Package transfers make SSH deployments even easier when Calamari or Mono is not an option

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 a Spring Boot web app - Will it Deploy? Episode 2

We try to automate the deployment of a Spring Boot web app AWS Elastic Beanstalk with infrastructure provisioning and zero production downtime.

Support @ Octopus

We consider support a core part of Octopus, but what exactly happens when you need help?

Deploying to SQL Server with Entity Framework Core - Will it Deploy? Episode 3

We try to automate the deployment of a SQL Server Database using Entity Framework Core to manage our database structure and data.

Deploying to SQL Server with a DACPAC - Will it Deploy? Episode 4

We try to automate the deployment of a SQL Server Database using a Data-tier Application Package (DACPAC) to manage our database structure and data.

How we work. Some recent lessons

Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed team

Selenium series: capturing HAR files

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

Selenium series: Launching Cucumber tests

In this post, we launch a Cucumber test inside a Lambda

Selenium series: mixing implicit and explicit waits

In this post, we learn how implicit and explicit waits can interfere with each other.

Octopus plugin for Jira - Better visibility for your software pipeline

Our new Octopus Deploy plugin for Jira makes it easy to plan, track and ship software with better end-to-end visibility of your software pipeline.

Octopus goes to conferences!

Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.

Scheduled Recurring Deployments RFC

Scheduled recurring deployments is something that many other CI/CD tools provide out-of-the-box, and we think Octopus should support this functionality as well! This is a request-for-comments.

Debugging "element does not exist in the collection properties" for SSIS

Learn about issues with package parameters when automating SSIS deployments, and how to avoid an error using different versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server.
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Documentation

AWS S3 Bucket feeds

Configuring AWS S3 buckets as Octopus Feeds

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Server actively prevents Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) using anti-forgery tokens.

Add a Space with environments

An example script to create a new space and populate it with some default environments.

Troubleshoot missing packages

Further information for missing packages error messages that can occur when deploying package steps.

Configure Runbook Environments

Step by step guide on how to configure environments in Octopus Deploy.

Docker Containers

Octopus allows you to treat Docker images as immutable build artifacts that are moved through each stage of deployment by running them as containers with deploy-time specific configuration.

Create and push an ASP.NET Core project

This guide describes how to package and publish an ASP.NET Core project to Octopus from your development workstation.

Dynamically selecting packages at deployment time

You can configure Octopus to dynamically resolve package details, including Feed and Package ID at deployment time by using variables. This can be useful if you want a different package feed for each environment, or a different package per environment or tenant.

Troubleshooting Access Denied Starting Http Listener

A guide for troubleshooting start up error "Access Denied starting HTTP Listener"

Troubleshooting invalid certificates

How to troubleshoot invalid certificates that won't load in Octopus Deploy

Import certificate to Windows certificate store

The Import Certificate deployment step allows you to import a certificate managed by Octopus into one of the Windows Certificate Stores as part of a deployment process

Project Release Deployment Targets Report

An example script that will provide a list of all the deployments and deployment targets deployed to.

Tenant creation

How to create a tenant in Octopus Deploy.

Rerun all canceled deployments and runbook runs after node shutdown.

An example script that determine which deployments and runbook runs were canceled because of a node shutdown and resubmit them.

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