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Top 8 container registries

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.

Trust Me - Assigning and Assuming IAM Roles

Learn how to use roles assigned to EC2 instances and assume secondary roles.

Using classes in custom step templates

Learn how to implement a class in a custom step template.

Cloud-native database deployment authentication

Our most popular database deployment templates have been updated with cloud-native authentication.

Creating an EKS cluster in AWS

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to create an EKS cluster in AWS.

Using AWS IAM roles in Octopus

Learn how IAM roles allow users to temporarily assume new permissions or perform work from an EC2 instance without any additional credentials.

CloudFormation, WildFly and Deploying Maven Artifacts

Take a look at how you can tie together a number of the new features from recent releases to deploy Java apps to the cloud.

Spring Boot as a Service

Learn how to deploy Spring Boot fully executable JAR files to EC2 Linux instances as services

Introducing Octopus Samples

An introduction to the Octopus Samples instance and how you can access it to see sample projects in Octopus Deploy.

Building a dynamic worker army with Terraform and AWS autoscaling groups

How to create dynamic worker infrastructure using Terraform and AWS autoscaling groups.

Reprioritizing the task queue

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

Prioritizing deployments

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

Checking Kubernetes pod CPU and memory

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

The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

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.

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.

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.

Variable Editor Redesign - RFC

Updates to the variable editor ...

Thoughts from my User Experience Journey

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

Documentation

Deploy an AWS CloudFormation template

Deploy an AWS CloudFormation Template.

AWS accounts

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy infrastructure to AWS and run scripts against the AWS CLI.

Samples instance

View real-world deployment and runbook examples in our Octopus Cloud samples instance - https://samples.octopus.app

List Worker pools

List worker pools

API

The Insights API

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.

Upgrading from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

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.

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.

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