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What is a container registry? A guide + top 8 registries to consider

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.

Variable specificity and complexity

Variables can be scoped to multiple values. What's the simplest way to score them?

How we use telemetry to improve Octopus Deploy

Learn how Octopus is using telemetry data to identify performance metrics and improve Octopus Deploy for our customers.

The 2024 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report, including an interesting plot twist for 2024.

DORA metrics - The predictive link between DevOps practice and business outcomes

What are the DORA metrics? Why do they matter? How can you use them to drive improvement?

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 is your deployment pipeline's quarterback

With the Super Bowl on the horizon, Andy Corrigan explains how Octopus is your deployment pipeline's quarterback

Re-thinking feature branch deployments

Feature branches should be tested prior to merging into master. All too often, companies have a single static test environment.

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.

Reprioritizing the task queue

Learn about our new feature that lets you reprioritize the task queue in Octopus.

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

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

Common deployment patterns and how to use them in Octopus

Deployment patterns are important to any development pipeline. This post looks at some common deployment patterns and explains how to set them up in Octopus.

Prioritizing deployments

Prioritize your deployments. Fast-tracking deployments has never been easier.

The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

Insights from our Optimizing Octopus webinar

Learn how to keep Octopus running smoothly, and easily see what’s happening, all with a little planning, maintenance and smart use of Octopus features.

Checking Kubernetes pod CPU and memory

Learn how to check a pod's resource usage in Kubernetes.

Thoughts from my User Experience Journey

Thoughts and takeaways from my recent journey with the Onboarding team, diving further into user-experience.

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x is easier than you think

Why and how to upgrade from Octopus 3.x.

Secrets in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to add secrets in GitHub to use with GitHub Actions, plus how to call them in workflows.

The benefits of containerization

Containers have a range of benefits that help you become more agile in software delivery. Containers are scalable, portable and complement your DevOps processes.

Variable Editor Redesign - RFC

Updates to the variable editor ...

DevOps versus SDLC

Find out if the software development life cycle still has a place in the DevOps era.

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.

Set up a local Kubernetes deployment pipeline

We teach you how to set up a local Kubernetes deployment pipeline, so you can experiment without risk.
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Documentation

Upgrading from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Project Insights

Project level insights are available as a new tab in every project so you can understand the performance of your projects across channels, environments, and tenants.

Manually fail a task

How to manually fail a running or canceling task when tasks hang or get stuck.

Add a Space with environments

An example script to create a new space and populate it with some default environments.

Reprioritize Tasks

An example script to find deployments or runbook runs for a specific environment, project, or tenant and move them to the top of the queue.

Space Level Insights

Space level insights

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