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The big 5 benefits of automated deployment

A guest post that explores the benefits of automated deployments.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

At the helm with Trish Khoo

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 Trish Khoo, our Director of Engineering

Octopus 3.0: Released!

Today we announce the release of Octopus 3.0

Task log UI improvements

Octopus 2024.2 includes enhancements to the deployment log including a modern visual design, performance improvements, and intelligent log rendering.

Azure changes in 3.1

We recently made big changes to deployment targets and Azure cloud services in Octopus 3.0, and it turns out we got our design wrong. In 3.1, we'll be reverting to the 2.6-era way of deploying cloud services. This change will also affect the way we deploy Azure web apps.

Safe schema updates - Continuous Integration is misunderstood

Learn about the principles that define Continuous Integration, and why you should avoid adopting specific practices, without knowing how to use them effectively.

OctoPack 3.0

Better TFS support, and no need to check in OctoPack to source control

Octopus Deploy 3.4

Octopus Deploy 3.4 RTW

Reflections on 2017

A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update

Octopus Deploy 2018 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2018, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

Insight Partners invests $172.5M in Octopus Deploy

Insight Partners is one of the largest and most successful venture funds in the world, and they’ve invested USD $172.5m in Octopus Deploy. Find out more.

Octopus September Release 3.17

This month's release includes first-class Java deployment support, Swagger support for the Octopus API bug fixes and more.

Octopus July Release 3.15

This month's release includes multi-tenant deployment improvements, Octopus Server Let's Encrypt integration, and more!

Lessons learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Some of the lessons I learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

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.

Octopus Deploy version changes for 2018

This post outlines our decision to change versioning strategy for Octopus Deploy to a style matching our iterative, monthly release cadence. It also describes how we arrived at our decision and how continuous delivery has fundamentally changed the way we plan, build, and release our software.

Octopus Deploy 2.0 API changes - RFC

For Octopus Deploy 2.0 we'll be making some improvements to the HTTP API, as well as documenting it on GitHub.

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

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

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

How global tenanted deployments would look without automation

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

At the helm with Michael Richardson

This post opens a series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on improve the product, and more. First is Michael Richardson, our original product management leader.

Octopuses

There are some compelling reasons to use multiple Octopus Servers. In Octopus Deploy 4.0 we want to add first-class support for these scenarios.

Planning Octopus 2.0

We're planning some big changes for Octopus 2.0. We need to avoid second system syndrome as well as resting on our laurels.
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