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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.

Synchronizing projects in managed spaces

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

Automating developer machine setup with Chocolatey

Learn how to automate a developer machine setup using Chocolatey

Safe schema updates - Resilient vs robust IT systems

Learn about the nature of failure in complex IT systems, and the benefits and drawbacks of designing for resilience vs robustness.

Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

Changing website port on each deployment

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

Expanding Proxy Support

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

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

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

Structured Logging with Seq

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

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

Platform Engineering should be part of DevOps

Find out why Platform Engineering is more likely to succeed with DevOps than without it.

New Home for Octopus Documentation

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

Szymon Pobiega: Evaluating OctopusDeploy in the context of an ISV

Using multiple OctopusDeploy instances in the context of an ISV

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 we work - 2016 edition

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

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

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

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.

Previous deployments

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

WildFly S3 Domain Discovery

Learn how to use S3 buckets as a domain discovery mechanism in AWS.
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Documentation

Hardening Apache

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

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Disaster recovery

How to work with your data and disaster recovery in an Octopus Cloud instance.

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.

Performance

Octopus is all about reliable and repeatable deployments, but that doesn't mean it has to be slow. This page will help you tune your deployments for the best performance in your scenario.

Azure Cloud Service targets

Azure Cloud Service deployment targets allow you to reference existing classic Cloud Services in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

VIP swap

The guide demonstrates how to perform a VIP swap when deploying to Azure Cloud Services.

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