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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.

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Choosing a container platform

A look at different container platforms and their suitability.

Config as Code: What is it and how is it beneficial?

Learn about the benefits of Config as Code and some of the considerations when implementing Config as Code.

Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?

What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?

Announcing Linux worker pools on Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud now supports Ubuntu worker pools and Windows 2019 worker pools.

New logo

Octopus Deploy now has a new logo, designed by Corey Ginnivan

Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

Learn how to build and configure a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun and development purposes.

Difference between docker.io, docker-cd, and Docker Desktop

Learn which version of Docker to install for your operating system.

Why visibility is important for modern deployments

We look at the reasons why reporting and visibility are important for modern deployments

RFC: Remote delta compression in Octopus

We're thinking of implementing remote delta compression in Octopus to reduce the bandwidth used during deployments

RFC: Composite Step Templates

Combine multiple step templates together into a single importable block

How we work. Some recent lessons

Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed team

Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore

An adventure in build tools and Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications

Selenium series: mixing implicit and explicit waits

In this post, we learn how implicit and explicit waits can interfere with each other.

Monoliths versus microservices

A post about the differences between monoliths and microservices. Find out why we think microservices are better than monoliths for enterprise software applications, and learn the challenges with each approach.

Inside DevOps with Stephen Shamakian

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our next post features Stephen Shamakian, DevOps Senior Principal Engineer.

How global tenanted deployments would look without automation

We explore how difficult global tenanted deployments would be if we didn't have automation.

How deployments to physical branches would look without automation

We explore how difficult tenanted deployments to company branches would be if we didn't have automation.

RFC: Improving the Create Release screen

A mockup of a new design for the create release screen

RFC: Removing snapshots

Snapshots have been a feature of Octopus since 2012, and they help to ensure that deployment processes are consistent for a given release. In 2015 we added Channels, which appears to make snapshots obsolete. We're considering removing snapshots in 3.4.

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?
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Documentation

Troubleshooting Access Denied Starting Http Listener

A guide for troubleshooting start up error "Access Denied starting HTTP Listener"

Legacy Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing legacy versions of Tentacles.

Minimize the data-migration time

Tips to minimize the time taken to migrate your data from Octopus 2.6 to 2018.10 LTS

Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing the latest version of Tentacle.

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