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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.

Rollback strategies with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to implement a rollback strategy with Octopus Deploy, without having to use advanced deployment patterns.

Feature branching web apps

Learn how to deploy and manage Azure Web App feature branches in Octopus Deploy.

Using Infrastructure as Code with Operations Runbooks

This post discusses how to leverage Operations Runbooks with Infrastructure as Code

What's New in Octopus 3.4: Elastic and Transient Environments

Exploring one of the major new feature sets in Octopus 3.4: Elastic and Transient Environments

What's New in Octopus 3.4: Multi-tenant deployments

Exploring one of the major new feature sets in Octopus 3.4: Multi-tenant deployments

Using Ad-Hoc Scripts in your Automated Database Deployment Pipeline

Using Ad-Hoc Scripts in your Automated Database Deployment Pipeline

Deploying SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages with Octopus

How to deploy SQL Server Integration Services packages with Octopus Deploy.

Deploying SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports with Octopus

How to deploy SQL Server Reporting Services reports with Octopus Deploy.

Deploying 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.

Track Jira issues across your CI/CD pipeline

Integrating Jira, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy to get clear traceability across your CI/CD pipeline.

Bitbucket Pipelines: Pipes and integrating with Octopus Deploy

What are Bitbucket Pipes, and how can you integrate them into your Bitbucket Pipeline with Octopus Deploy?

Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions

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

Reusable YAML with CircleCI orbs

An overview of using and creating CircleCI Orbs.

The ultimate guide to Kubernetes microservice deployments

Learn how to deploy microservices into a Kubernetes cluster with Octopus Deploy.

Have you designed your application for deployment?

Strategies and ideas to simplify the deployment process of applications.

Deploy and consume ZIP files from Maven

Learn how to deploy ZIP files to Maven and consume them in an Octopus project.

Lessons learned implementing database deployments

Exploring the pitfalls of implementing database deployments

Resetting RavenDB indexes

Sometimes in order to troubleshoot Octopus, you'll need to reset your RavenDB indexes.

Octopus 2.0 Task Output: RFC

The tasks screen will get an update in Octopus 2.0. Here are some mockups.

Maven repositories explained

Learn how Maven repositories are structured and how to access artifacts stored in them.

Octopus 2.0 UI: Angular, Grunt and responsiveness

Some screenshots of the Octopus 2.0 progress
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Documentation

Scheduled deployment triggers

Automatic deployment triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project that will cause an automatic deployment of a release into an environment.

Scheduled runbook triggers

Scheduled runbook triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your runbook that will cause an automatic runbook run to environments of your choosing.

Subscription webhook notifications

Set up a Slack notification from a subscription

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions can leverage the Octopus CLI to pack, build, push, and create releases for Octopus Deploy.

Security

Security considerations for Octopus Administrators.

Authentication providers

Authentication options for Octopus Deploy including our internal provider, Active Directory, Azure AD, Okta, and GoogleApps.

Active Directory authentication

Octopus Deploy can use Windows credentials to identify users.

Specify a custom container for AD authentication

How to specifying a custom container to use for AD Authentication.

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