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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.

Why Octopus uses self-signed certificates

Why Octopus doesn't use the .NET Service Bus (or polling)

Why consider database deployment automation?

This post explores why automating scripts to deploy database changes is valuable and some of the benefits of database deployment automation.

Why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment

Find out why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment, plus the ways how.

Why visibility is important for modern deployments

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

The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

Why multi-tenancy is a confusing term and what it means to Octopus

Andy looks at why multi-tenancy is a tricky thing to define and how that affected Octopus's messaging.

Why we chose Kubernetes, Linux, and .NET Core for Octopus Cloud

A reflection on the architectural options we considered for hosting Octopus Cloud v2.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Why we chose React over Angular when rewriting the Octopus 4.0 UI

One of the biggest changes in Octopus Deploy 4.0 is a complete portal rewrite in React.

Why are there so many definitions of lead time?

Find out why there are multiple definitions of lead time and how you can use them to improve software delivery.

Why you should take a look at Kotlin's standard library

See how run, let, also and apply can improve your Kotlin code.

Why use Octopus for Kubernetes deployments?

Understanding the value that Octopus brings to your Kubernetes deployments.

Why you should not use Lambda aliases to define environments

There are many approaches to running Lambdas across logical environments, but you need to be wary of the pitfalls when using aliases.

Deprecating the Octo CLI

Learn why Octopus is dropping support for the Octo CLI and what's next.

Octopus Deploy acquires Codefresh

Paul explains why he's so excited about Codefresh joining Octopus, what we love about the Codefresh team, and why we think this is excellent news for our customers, Codefresh customers, and the Argo open-source community.

Tentacle .NET version change

Learn why we're moving Tentacle from .NET Framework 4.5.2 & .NET Core 3.1 to .NET Framework 4.8 & .NET 6.

Introducing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud has been a while in the making. In this post we look at how and why Octopus Cloud came to be, and what the future may look like

Operations Runbooks: Putting the Ops in DevOps

Operations Runbooks put the Ops in DevOps and automate routine maintenance and emergency operations (incident response) tasks.

Introducing dark mode

Octopus 2020.1 introduces a dark theme to Octopus Deploy.

SQL Server and PowerShell made easier with dbatools: Practical Examples

A comparison between the SqlServer and dbatools PowerShell modules

Pitfalls with SQL rollbacks and automated database deployments

While it is possible to do SQL rollbacks to revert database changes, the real question is, should you? This article will walk through some questions to consider.

Automating developer machine setup with Chocolatey

Learn how to automate a developer machine setup using Chocolatey

Continuous Integration vs Continuous Deployment

CI/CD is frequently referred to by a single acronym as if it was a single process. This post looks at the fundamental differences between CI and CD.

Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET

Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.

Octopus Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

Octopus Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). We can assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities within our scope, so customers can confirm their installations are secure.

Chicago ALM user group: Automating deployments with Octopus Deploy

Ian Paullin will be talking about Octopus at the Chicago ALM user group on May 21st

Octopus vs. Build Servers

Octopus Starter edition: Free for small teams

Octopus Deploy: Starter is a new edition of Octopus Deploy. It allows small teams to run a self-hosted Octopus Server and deploy up to 10 targets, all for free.

Octopus presenting at WinOps 2018 London

Derek Campbell will be presenting at the WinOps 2018 event this month in London on how Octopus Deploy enables a successful DevOps journey.

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