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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.

Creating a high-performance DevOps toolchain

Discover the elements of a high-performance DevOps toolchain and the research that backs it up.

Database migrations lessons learned

Learn about database migrations and some lessons learned from using them in the Octopus Deploy codebase.

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

Proper scrutiny is important, but CABs are an inefficient and ineffective way to scrutinize.

Introducing the Workato connector for Octopus Deploy

Learn how the new Workato connector lets you easily integrate other systems with Octopus Deploy.

Public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd

At Octopus Deploy, we’ve been running a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd for over 12 months now, and we’re pleased to make it public.

The new DevOps performance clusters

Explains the changes and additions to performance clusters in The State of DevOps Report 2022.

Platform Engineering should be part of DevOps

Find out why Platform Engineering is more likely to succeed with DevOps than without it.

The 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report

Find out about the release of the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps report.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report.

Understanding performance through team types

Find out how the descriptive team types in the State of DevOps report can help you improve.

Calculating DORA metrics with Runbooks

Learn how to measure the performance of your deployments using the DORA metrics and a custom runbook.

Lessons learned with home automation

Lessons learned implementing home automation.

DevOps and Platform Engineering

Find out where Platform Engineering fits into a DevOps process and why both DevOps and Platform Engineering can help your organization attain high performance.

What are the benefits of using NGINX Unit?

What features does NGINX Unit have that make it an attractive solution for modern deployments?

The big 5 benefits of automated deployment

A guest post that explores the benefits of automated deployments.

Octopus Deploy acquires Dist

Octopus Deploy has acquired Dist, a cloud-based container registry and artifact repository.

Defining a target architecture

How to approach defining a target architecture for your software systems.

The key assumption of modern work culture

Find out the key assumption that you must change for your organization to adopt modern culture.

Why use Octopus for Kubernetes deployments?

Understanding the value that Octopus brings to your Kubernetes deployments.
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Environment recommendations

Environments form the backbone of your deployment pipeline. Here we provide some recommendations for configuring your environments to better prepare you to scale your Octopus Deploy instance up and out as you add more projects.

Common patterns

Common patterns in database deployments

Log files

Octopus Server and Tentacle log file locations and details.

Community edition

Server and Cloud community edition limits

Troubleshooting Access Denied Starting Http Listener

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

Multi-region deployment pattern

Implementing multi-region deployments, i.e. deploying to multiple geographic regions, with Octopus.

Maintain High Availability nodes

Managing the nodes in your Octopus High Availability cluster can be done in the Octopus Web Portal.

Minimize the data-migration time

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

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