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Octopus AI experiment

We're testing the idea of allowing an Octopus space to be queried in plain English with an AI integration and would love some feedback.

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.

Behind the scenes of the Octopus Extension for GitHub Copilot

Learn how we integrated Azure AI and Copilot when making the Octopus extension.

10 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments

The 10 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments is a comprehensive guide to building a repeatable deployment pipeline from Octopus to Kubernetes. Download the ebook.

What's new in Octopus 2.2

PowerShell console, PowerShell conventions, and IIS bindings

A first look at Jenkins X

Jenkins X is a complete mental shift from the traditional role of a CI server. In this post, we take a high-level look at Jenkins X and highlight why you need to appreciate it on its own terms.

Understanding performance through team types

Find out how the descriptive team types in the State of DevOps report can help you improve.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An introduction to DevOps

To open our series about runbooks, we take a surface-level look at the concepts, tools, and roles of DevOps, plus how Octopus fits in.

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.

The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

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.

Expanded Script Modules Support

Octopus Deploy now supports script modules for Bash, C#, F# and Python!
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Documentation

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.

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.

Space Level Insights

Space level insights

Octopus Cloud

How to work with Octopus Cloud.

Upgrading from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Enable web request logging

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

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