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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.

Use TFS with Octopus? We want to hear from you!

We're planning some improvements to the way we integrate Octopus Deploy with TFS, and we'd love to get your feedback.

Octopus will be at DevOps Days London 2019

Octopus is a silver sponsor of this years DevOps Days London.

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

Learn how to create a WebDriver project in Java with this blog series.

Selenium series: Environment specific handling

In this post, we learn how to customize WebDriver operations based on the target environment.

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 1

Octopus 3.4 has finally reached beta maturity, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: now with multi-tenant deployments, improved support for elastic and transient environments, Cloud Regions, and proxy support for Tentacle communications.

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 2

Octopus 3.4 Beta 2 is ready, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: improvements on Beta 1 plus NuGet v3, SemVer 2, and F# Script support.

Canary deployments with ECS

Learn how to use an external deployment controller to perform Canary deployments in ECS

Selenium series: running tests against BrowserStack

In this post, we learn how to run tests against the BrowserStack service.

Behind the scenes of the Octopus Extension for GitHub Copilot

Learn how we integrated Azure AI and Copilot when making the Octopus extension.

Taming the Kraken: How to protect your data

Learn how to keep your data safe when Octopus Deploy is deploying your database updates.

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Creating an RDS instance with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to create an RDS instance with this sample CloudFormation template.

Top 8 container registries

There are many container registry services, suitable for all different kinds of teams. We look at the top 8 and why you might consider them.

Deploying a Lambda with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to deploy a Lambda with this sample CloudFormation template.

Octopus Workflow Builder feedback

Request for feedback on the early release of a workflow builder.

At the helm with Shipra Mahindra

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Shipra Mahindra, Senior Product Manager.

Octopus 2022 Q2: Containerize and modernize your CI/CD pipeline

Octopus 2022 Q2 with support for cloud-native containers and serverless is now available. Plus automatic cloud target discovery and ServiceNow integration (early access).

ServiceNow integration for Octopus Deploy: early access preview

Octopus introduces ServiceNow Change Management without the friction (early access preview).

Azure Bicep and Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Bicep templates and automate their deployment using Octopus Runbooks.

Source control your Azure Bicep files

Learn how to use GitHub to source control your Azure Bicep files and then deploy them using Octopus.
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JSON formatted output

Formatting output from the Octopus CLI

Create packages with the Octopus CLI

Using the Octopus CLI (octo) command line tool to create packages for deployment.

Java error messages and troubleshooting

Java deployment steps include a number of unique error codes that may be displayed in the output if there was an error

Octopus Server in Kubernetes

Octopus can be installed into a Kubernetes cluster running the Octopus Server Linux container, optionally leveraging High Availability (HA).

Approvals

Octopus Deploy can integrate with supported ITSM tools for deployment control using Change Request approvals

ServiceNow Integration

Octopus Deploy can integrate with your ServiceNow instance for deployment control using Change Request approvals

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