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Changing website port on each deployment

Blue/green style deployments by varying the port number between each deployment

Structured Logging with Seq

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

Expanding Proxy Support

Octopus 3.4 introduces expanded proxy support so Octopus Server and Tenacle can now communicate to each other through HTTP proxies.

New Home for Octopus Documentation

After our documentation hosting provider went under, we decided to change where we host our docs.

How we work - 2016 edition

An update on how we work as a team to build and support Octopus.

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

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

Previous deployments

In 2.5.4 we added the ability to more easily view previous deployments

Still deploying manually? What you're missing

By automating deployments, they become less painful and more reliable, which allows you to make them more frequently.

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instance

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 3.1 will require .NET 4.5

Octopus and Tentacle have always been built against .NET 4.0, but from Octopus 3.1 onwards we'll be building against .NET 4.5.

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

Competition: Build the Octopus Library

Help other Octopus users by sharing your reusable step templates

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

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Variable Editor Redesign

The variable editor has been revamped for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

Automatically provisioning Amazon EC2 instances with Tentacle installed

A short code snippet that helps you to create EC2 instances with the Octopus Deploy Tentacle agent installed and registered, ready for deployment.

Synchronizing projects in managed spaces

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

Docker on Windows and Octopus Deploy

ScottGu announced Docker and Microsoft partnership. What does it mean for deployment automation on Windows?

Invoking an executable from PowerShell with a dynamic number of parameters

Calling an executable from PowerShell is easy - most of the time, you just put an `&` in front. But it gets tricky when you need to pass in a variable length list of parameters. This blog post shows you how.

Importing variables with the Octopus REST API

How the REST API can be used to add variables
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Documentation

Hardening Apache

With Octopus Deploy you can harden Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Service Fabric PowerShell scripts

Service Fabric PowerShell scripts allow you to manage your Service Fabric clusters using the Service Fabric SDK as part of your deployment process.

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