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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.

Octopus.Client goes Open Source

Octopus.Client and Sampler are now Open Source and versioned using SemVer. Octopus.Client and Octo.exe are now .NET Core and have a Async API.

Deploying Tomcat apps via the manager

Learn how to deploy web applications to Tomcat via the manager

Deploying a Vault to WildFly

Learn how to deploy a vault from Octopus to WildFly to secure passwords in configuration files

Using Jenkins Pipelines with Octopus

Learn how to trigger Octopus deployments with Jenkins Pipelines

Octopus 2.0 Progress Update

Right now we're tidying up a few bugs to do a final hands-on preview release. Then we'll move to finishing any items needed for a private beta (beta 1)

Introducing the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Octopus 2020.3 introduces the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Creating EC2 instance in AWS with CloudFormation

Learn how to create Windows and Linux EC2 instances in AWS with example CloudFormation templates

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.

Octopus 2020.3: Runbooks++, Jenkins Pipelines, and Octopus Linux Docker image

Octopus 2020.3 includes our improve Runbooks support, Jenkins Pipelines, our streamlined process editor, and early access to our Octopus Linux Docker image.

Variable Editor Redesign - RFC

Updates to the variable editor ...

Change a runbook process to use execution containers

Learn how to change a runbook from running on a worker machine directly to using execution containers.

Octopus 2.0 Public Beta

Octostache Update - JSON, Indexing, Formatting and Dates

New changes required to Octostache to support Docker provided an opportunity to provide some additionally requested features

Documentation

Hardening Apache

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

Restarting a Tomcat Web application

With Octopus Deploy you can restart a Tomcat web application as part of a routine operations task.

Create MySQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can create a MySQL database with a Runbook.

Provision an Azure App Service

Provision an Azure App Service using a runbook

Restart server

With Octopus Deploy you can restart a server with a runbook.

Hardening Windows

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

Create PaaS MySQL database server

With Octopus Deploy you can create a MySQL PaaS database server with a runbook.

Terraform

Octopus Deploy can help you automate provisioning infrastructure with Terraform using runbooks.

Provision AWS resources with Terraform

With runbooks, you can use Terraform to create resources in AWS.

AWS

Octopus Deploy can help you automate provisioning infrastructure in AWS using runbooks.

Provision an AWS RDS instance

Provision an AWS RDS using a runbook

Install NGINX

With Octopus Deploy you can install NGINX with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Installing Apache

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

Hardening an Ubuntu server

With Octopus Deploy you can harden an Ubuntu server as part of a routine operations task.

IIS Runbooks

With Octopus Deploy you can manage IIS with runbooks as part of your routine operations tasks.

Runbook variables

How to use variables in runbooks

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