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Building versus buying software

Probing the pros and cons of building software yourself compared to buying a product.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

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

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

Selenium series: The Page Object Model design pattern

In this post, we learn about the Page Object Model design pattern.

Selenium series: The TicketMonster test

In this post, we learn how to test a real world Java web application.

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.

Implementing DevOps in State Government

The story of how I implemented DevOps practices at a state government agency

Octopus Cloud FAQs

Octopus Cloud: all your questions answered!

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.

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

Inside DevOps with Stephen Shamakian

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our next post features Stephen Shamakian, DevOps Senior Principal Engineer.

Let's talk Licensing

Octopus deploy licenses, renewals and upgrades

Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

Learn how to build and configure a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun and development purposes.

Negotiating with the gatekeepers

Building trust relationships between humans is rarely as simple as comparing thumbprints.

Octopus Deploy vs. Puppet/Chef

What's the difference between Octopus and Puppet/Chef?

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Selenium series: Writing a Gherkin feature

In this post, we write a complete test in Gherkin

10 of our favorite actions for GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a newcomer to Continuous Integration and provides CI as a Service. Here are 10 of our favorite actions to install from the GitHub Marketplace.

Microservices and frameworks

An overview of microservices and the different frameworks you can use to support them.

What are SBOMs?

Find out what SBOMs are, learn about the US government's Executive Order, and how Octopus can help with your SBOMs.

The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.

Selenium series: Launching Cucumber tests

In this post, we launch a Cucumber test inside a Lambda

What is shadow IT?

When we talk about Shadow IT, we're talking about IT resources that an organization doesn't have visibility on. Find out how this affects your business, and how runbooks can help.

Inside DevOps with Brandon Moore

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Brandon Moore, Senior Software Developer in the power industry.

Selenium series: Implementing Cucumber

In this post, we see how to integrate Cucumber with WebDriver.

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

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

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 Runbooks
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