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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.

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 why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

Variable Editor Redesign - RFC

Updates to the variable editor ...

Docker Engine in Octopus Deploy

Simple Docker Engine commands are now available in Octopus Deploy for testing and feedback

Variable specificity and complexity

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

Migrating 426 Nancy API endpoints to ASP.NET Core controllers

We migrated Octopus Deploy to a more standardized way of writing an API, using ASP.NET controllers. Learn about our implementation strategy: Derisk, Enable, Finish.

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

Redesigned Tenants overview dashboard

Learn how we redesigned our Tenants overview dashboard to make it easier to view and manage thousands of tenants.

Reprioritizing the task queue

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

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.

Safe schema updates - Database delivery hell

This post opens a series about safe schema updates with a brief tour through Dante's 9 levels of Database Delivery Hell.

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.

Checking Kubernetes pod CPU and memory

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

Choosing a container platform

A look at different container platforms and their suitability.

Prioritizing deployments

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

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

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

Thoughts from my User Experience Journey

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

Octopus 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.

100x faster db deploys

Learn how to skip unnecessary schema compares in tightly coupled systems for faster database deployments.

Deploying to Google Cloud Run

Learn how to deploy a container to the Google Cloud Run service.

Documentation

Octopus Cloud

How to work with Octopus Cloud.

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.

Auditing

Octopus Deploy captures audit information whenever significant events happen in the system.

Sensitive variables

Sensitive variables allow you to define secret values used in your applications that can be securely stored in Octopus, or retrieved from a Secret Manager/Key Vault using one of our community step templates.

Octopus REST API

Octopus integrates with build servers, scripts, external applications and anything else with its REST API.

Create a runbook

An example script that creates a runbook.

Adding Environments

An example script to create environments in a Space.

Enable/disable project

An example script that enables or disables a project in Octopus.

Create a new scheduled runbook trigger

An example script to create and publish a new runbook scheduled trigger

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