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Ask Octopus Episode 19-21 - Installing Octopus, Staging deployment packages & Retrying rolling deployments

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

The Evolution of Auto-Deployments and Event-Sourcing

Octopus 3.4 introduces elastic and transient environments and this post explores the evolution of auto-deployments in this context.

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.

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off

Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off with links to posts talking about new feature deep dives and the decisions that went in to building them.

Working at Octopus - a story of silicon and steel

A history of the computers I have enjoyed as a result of the Octopus Deploy computer policy.

A look at GitHub Codespaces private preview

An early look at GitHub Codespace.

How to deploy from Minecraft with Octopus Deploy

Imagine a world where deployments were simple. You could push a button in your favorite video game and your latest release was deployed to production.

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

Deploying to Octopus from Jenkins Using Pipelines

Learn how to craft a Jenkins Pipeline that builds a Java project and deploys it to Octopus.

At the helm with Bob Walker

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 Bob Walker, our Technical Director of Customer Success.

Future of Deployment: Nano Server and .NET Core

Nano Server is an extremely small version of Windows Server. .NET Core is a small version of the .NET runtime. Together, I believe they are the future of how applications will run in production.

Comparing Lean, Agile, and Continuous Delivery

Are Agile and Lean principles still relevant and how do they compare to Continuous Delivery?

DevOps versus SDLC

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

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Multi-tenant deployments: Origins

Multi-tenant deployments have finally arrived! This post takes a look back on why the roadmap for the new feature took such a detour but how it has become ultimately shaped by our users.

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

How to Handle locked files and deployments

SysInternals Handle is a useful tool for finding why a file is locked

Script Parameters

Octopus 3.3.21 introduces ability to pass parameters to scripts.

Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions

A post showing how to create a GitHub Action that pushes a package to Octopus.

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x is easier than you think

Why and how to upgrade from Octopus 3.x.

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.

Calamari: open sourcing Tentacle deployments

At the helm with Harsh Sabikhi

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 Harsh Sabikhi, Senior Vice President, Revenue.

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: The first WebDriver test

In this post, we create the first WebDriver tests against Chrome and Firefox.

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

Learn how to create a WebDriver project in Java with this blog series.

Should your CI/CD process be implemented in a single Pipeline as Code file?

As more teams move to Pipeline as Code, there are some important questions to ask when deciding to merge a CI/CD process into a single PaC file.

Octopus releases and Long Term Support (LTS)

We’re iterating on the way we deliver releases of Octopus Deploy

Documentation

Enable web request logging

How to enable web request logging to help the Octopus team analyze usage patterns and detecting performance problems.

Troubleshooting the Octopus installation

Troubleshooting steps for installing Octopus Deploy

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