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Octopus TL;DR - Performance Improvements

Once a week we have a short "TL;DR" meeting where team members present things that are interesting. We're going to start recording and posting portions of them to YouTube each week. This first one was about some performance improvements.

Remote Release Promotions RFC

We are designing a new feature to allow promoting Releases between different Octopus Servers (Spaces). You may want to do this for for security, geographic, or other reasons. This is a request-for-comments.

Octopus Cloud: Western Europe region is now available

Octopus Cloud: Western Europe region is now available

Automating support emails with Octopus Runbooks

You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.

RFC: Cloud Regions

Request For Comment on proposed Cloud Regions feature

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

Octopus Deploy 3.7: Effortless step templates

The new release of Octopus Deploy steps it up a notch by improving the UI for adding a step template, providing direct access to community step templates from a project's deployment process and improving the management of step templates in the library.

What does Microsoft deprecating Azure Service Management APIs mean for Octopus Users?

As Azure begin to deprecate their Azure Service Management APIs, this has knock-on effects for Octopus Users. Although Cloud Service deployments will keep working, Azure Certificate Management Accounts will no longer provide such a rich UX experience.

How to design an automated database deployment process

This article walks you through designing your ideal automated database deployment process.

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.

Library variable set permission changes

Some upcoming changes to how library variable set permissions work

DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model

As DevOps adoption increases, it becomes more likely the certification industrial complex will try to apply the wrong model.

Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions

A post showing how to create a GitHub Action that pushes a package to Octopus.

Octopus React UI Permissions

Inside look into the React UI permissions

Running SQL Server Developer in a Windows-based Docker Container

SQL Server can run in a Windows-based docker container, how can developers leverage that on their development machines?

Pitfalls with SQL rollbacks and automated database deployments

While it is possible to do SQL rollbacks to revert database changes, the real question is, should you? This article will walk through some questions to consider.

Benefits of isolated tenanted infrastructure

Learn the different ways you can isolate your customers' data and why we recommend isolated infrastructure.

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.

Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

The first step towards safe production releases... safe dev/test deployments.

Automated database deployment process: case study

This article walks through the steps I used to help design an automated database deployment process.

Cloning a space using the Octopus API

With the Octopus API, it is possible to clone almost everything you need in a space.

Farmer: Simpler ARM deployments with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Farmer to create and deploy ARM templates with Octopus Deploy

Integration 101: Octopus and Build Servers

A brief introduction on how to approach your brand new integration between Octopus and your Build Server

Database Feature Branch Deployments

Standing up a sandbox for feature branches is a common scenario. This article aims to solve that for databases.
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Documentation

Automatically failover DNS with monitoring

With Octopus Deploy you can monitor your application and failover DNS with a runbook.

Manually failover DNS

With Octopus Deploy you can manually failover DNS with a Runbook.

Emergency operations

This section includes examples of how to use runbooks to help automate disaster recovery operations.

Database backups and rollbacks

Recommendations on backing up and rolling back a database during a failed deployment.

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