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Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Improving PowerShell compatibility

RFC: Octopus Reactions - Integration toolkit

A proposal for a feature we're calling Reactions. A set of tools to enable event based integration with a wide range of third party products. We'd love you to have your say!

Documentation

Record a performance trace

How to record a software performance trace of your running Octopus Server so we can solve performance issues.

Troubleshooting OctoPack

Troubleshooting NuGet packages and Octopack

Record memory snapshots

How to record memory snapshots of your running Octopus Server so we can solve memory issues.

Octopus REST API

Octopus integrates with build servers, scripts, external applications and anything else with its REST API.

Calamari

Calamari is the command-line tool invoked by Tentacle during a deployment. It knows how to extract and install NuGet packages, run the Deploy.ps1 etc. conventions, modify configuration files, and all the other things that happen during an deployment.

API examples

A set of examples using the Octopus REST API to accomplish tasks.

How to Create an API Key

How to create an API key to interact with Octopus without the need for a username and password.

Migration API

Octopus includes a migration API that provides the ability to back-up and restore parts of an Octopus Deploy instance remotely.

Octopus.Client

Octopus.Client is an open source .NET library that makes it easy to write C# programs that interact with the Octopus Deploy REST API.

Octopus.Migrator.exe command line

Octopus.Migrator.exe is an Octopus command line tool that provides the ability to back-up and restore parts of an Octopus Deploy instance as well as migrate data from 2.6 builds.

Migrator export

Using the Octopus.Migrator.exe command line tool to export data to a directory.

Migrator import

Using the Octopus.Migrator.exe command line tool to import data from an Octopus 3.0 or newer directory.

migrate

Imports data from an Octopus 2.6 backup

Partial export

Using the Octopus.Migrator.exe command line tool to export data to a directory filtered by a single project.

Version

Shows the version information for this release of the Octopus Migrator

Octopus.Server.exe command line

Octopus.Server.exe is the executable that runs the Octopus instance, it can also be called from the command line.

Admin

Reset admin user passwords, re-enable them, and ensure they are in the admin group

Built-in Worker

Configure the built-in worker used to run deployment actions and scripts on the Octopus Server

Check services

 Checks the Octopus instances are running

Configure

Configure this Octopus instance

Create instances

 Registers a new instance of the Octopus service

Database

 Create or drop the Octopus database

Delete instances

 Deletes an instance of the Octopus service

Export certificates

Exports the certificate that Octopus Server can use to authenticate itself with its Tentacles

External Worker

Configure the external worker used to run deployment actions and scripts on the Octopus Server

Import certificates

 Replace the certificate that Octopus Server uses to authenticate itself with its Tentacles

License

 Import a license key

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