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Ask Octopus Episode 16-18 - Stopping Deployments during Upgrade, Upgrading Octopus & Automatically Auditing your Projects

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.

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.

Introducing Octopus Samples

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

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.

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

How we use SQL Server as a Document Store

18 months ago we switched from RavenDB to SQL Server, but we kept using SQL as if it were a document store. This post goes into some detail about how our database works.

Execution containers for workers: Extending the Octopus worker-tools Docker image

Unsure what image to use with the Execution containers for workers feature in Octopus? This post covers what the octopus/worker-tools image is, how to extend it, and why you might create your own image entirely.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report.

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

Creating a Selenium WebDriver test framework

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

Building a dynamic worker army with Terraform and AWS autoscaling groups

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

Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?

What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?

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.

Announcing Linux worker pools on Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud now supports Ubuntu worker pools and Windows 2019 worker pools.

Automating Tentacle for Linux installation with CloudFormation templates

Automating Tentacle for Linux installation with an AWS CloudFormation template.
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Documentation

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

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.

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

Dynamic Worker pools

Dynamic Worker pools are used in our cloud product to dynamically create and assign workers to running tasks. This page describes how dynamic worker pools work.

.NET Configuration transforms

Using .NET configuration transformations.

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