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Octopus TL;DR - Performance Improvements
Once a week we have a short "TL;DR" meeting where team members present things that are interesting. We're going to start recording and posting portions of them to YouTube each week. This first one was about some performance improvements.Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings
Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.Remote Release Promotions RFC
We are designing a new feature to allow promoting Releases between different Octopus Servers (Spaces). You may want to do this for for security, geographic, or other reasons. This is a request-for-comments.Octopus Cloud: Western Europe region is now available
Octopus Cloud: Western Europe region is now availableSSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerabilityRFC: Cloud Regions
Request For Comment on proposed Cloud Regions featureOctopus Deploy 3.7: Effortless step templates
The new release of Octopus Deploy steps it up a notch by improving the UI for adding a step template, providing direct access to community step templates from a project's deployment process and improving the management of step templates in the library.What does Microsoft deprecating Azure Service Management APIs mean for Octopus Users?
As Azure begin to deprecate their Azure Service Management APIs, this has knock-on effects for Octopus Users. Although Cloud Service deployments will keep working, Azure Certificate Management Accounts will no longer provide such a rich UX experience.How to design an automated database deployment process
This article walks you through designing your ideal automated database deployment process.Library variable set permission changes
Some upcoming changes to how library variable set permissions workMy First Year Working at Octopus
Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions
A post showing how to create a GitHub Action that pushes a package to Octopus.DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model
As DevOps adoption increases, it becomes more likely the certification industrial complex will try to apply the wrong model.Octopus React UI Permissions
Inside look into the React UI permissionsBenefits of isolated tenanted infrastructure
Learn the different ways you can isolate your customers' data and why we recommend isolated infrastructure.Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates human problems
On loose coupling and domain-driven development, and how they mitigate human problems that are commonly associated with monolithic architectures.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.Running SQL Server Developer in a Windows-based Docker Container
SQL Server can run in a Windows-based docker container, how can developers leverage that on their development machines?Cloning a space using the Octopus API
With the Octopus API, it is possible to clone almost everything you need in a space.Farmer: Simpler ARM deployments with Octopus Deploy
Learn how to use Farmer to create and deploy ARM templates with Octopus DeployIntegration 101: Octopus and Build Servers
A brief introduction on how to approach your brand new integration between Octopus and your Build ServerAutomated database deployment process: case study
This article walks through the steps I used to help design an automated database deployment process.Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone
A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus RunbooksUsing DbUp and workers to automate database deployments
Using DbUp and workers to automate database deployments
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Automatically failover DNS with monitoring
With Octopus Deploy you can monitor your application and failover DNS with a runbook.Manually failover DNS
With Octopus Deploy you can manually failover DNS with a Runbook.Emergency operations
This section includes examples of how to use runbooks to help automate disaster recovery operations.Database backups and rollbacks
Recommendations on backing up and rolling back a database during a failed deployment.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.