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BuildDeploySupport: Sharing PowerShell scripts in Octopus
A guest blog post by Jonathan Goldman on his open source project that makes it easier to share PowerShell scripts in Octopus projects.RFC: Only calling PowerShell scripts at the root
An upcoming change to which PowerShell scripts to invokeUsing the Azure custom script extension for complex installations
A deep dive into the Azure custom script extension for Windows VMsDeploying SQL Server Security with dbatools and Octopus Deploy
A discussion about the challenge of managing SQL Server users and roles, and a script that uses dbatools to version control and deploy them.Installing Tentacles with DSC in AWS CloudFormation templates
Learn how to configure a target work Worker Tentacle when creating a new EC2 instance with CloudFormation.RFC: Azure Service Fabric support
This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus DeployTesting PowerShell code with Pester
Learn how to test PowerShell code for any scenario with the PowerShell testing framework Pester.Continuous Delivery for PowerShell Modules using Octopus Deploy and TakoFukku
Learn how to deploy PowerShell Modules to the PowerShell Gallery automatically using Octopus DeployAsk Octopus Episode 7 - Delta Compression, Common Performance Issues, Deploy Production to UAT
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Ask Octopus Episode 16-18 - Stopping Deployments during Upgrade, Upgrading Octopus & Automatically Auditing your Projects
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Ask Octopus Episode 31-33 - Incremental changes, using Octopus.Client with different Spaces and Auto Scaling groups with Octopus Deploy
A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten and how we went about solving them.GitHub Feeds
GitHub Feeds now allow deployments from source code without having to explicitly build packagesAutomatically 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.Octopus Server 2019.12 with Long Term Support (LTS)
Octopus Server 2019.12 LTS is now available, and we recommend this release for self-hosted customers. This release includes Operations Runbooks, our official Jenkins plugin, PowerShell Core support, improved build server integration, and more.Octopus Deploy 2019.10 - Flexible Linux deployments, PowerShell Core support, Operations Runbooks EAP
Octopus 2019.10 introduces Tentacle for Linux for flexible Linux deployments, built-in PowerShell Core support, simpler build information and releas notes, and early access to Runbooks for your operations teams.Octopus 1.5 with Azure and FTP deployments, plus ScriptCS support!
Today we released Octopus Deploy 1.5, which features support for Windows Azure cloud service deployments, as well as deployments via FTP/FTPS.Automating SQL Server Developer installation
Learn how to automate SQL Server Developer installation using PowerShell and SQL Server's built-in tooling.RFC: Version Control of Octopus configuration with Octopus Declarative
We want to build a great experience for people who want to store their Octopus configuration in Git.
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Offline package drop
Offline package drop deployment targets allow you to deploy your applications in the most restricted security environments where Tentacles cannot be used.Install software with Chocolatey
Create runbooks to install software with Chocolatey as part of a routine operations task.Windows Services
Octopus can install, reconfigure, and start Windows Services during deployment, usually without requiring any custom scripts.Deploying a package to an Azure Service Fabric cluster
Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments to Service Fabric clusters.Installing the Tentacle via DSC in an ARM template
How to install the Tentacle using Desired State configuration (DSC) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) TemplateImmutable Infrastructure
This guide covers deploying to immutable infrastructure where a new version of the infrastructure is provisioned and the old infrastructure is terminated.Installing Apache
With Octopus Deploy you can install Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.PowerShell Core
Enabling PowerShell Core.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.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.