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Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

Using the NGINX Docker image

Learn how to create Docker web apps based on the NGINX image.

Using the HTTPd Docker image

A detailed look at how to use the HTTPd web server with Docker.

Introducing Google Cloud Platform integration for Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy now includes integration for Google Cloud Platform including built-in accounts, gcloud scripts, Terraform and Kubernetes.

Deploying to Google Cloud Run

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

WildFly S3 Domain Discovery

Learn how to use S3 buckets as a domain discovery mechanism in AWS.

The difference between ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer Kubernetes services

Learn the differences between the 3 kinds of Kubernetes services, ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer.

A look at the new NGINX VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources

See the features of the new custom resource definitions introduced with the NGINX v1.5 ingress controller.

Octopus 1.3 with manual steps, email steps and PowerShell steps

Deploy your first container to Kubernetes via Octopus

Learn how to perform your first container deployment

Importing Kubernetes YAML in Octopus

Learn how to import existing Kubernetes YAML into Octopus steps

Creating test Kubernetes clusters with Kind

Learn how to integrate a test cluster created with Kind with Octopus

Introducing the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Octopus 2020.3 introduces the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy to MongoDB using Liquibase.

Deconstructing blue/green deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to manually implement blue/green deployments in Kubernetes and Octopus.

Kubernetes testing with KIND

KIND offers a new solution for spinning up Kubernetes clusters for testing and development

Deploying ASP.NET Core to Linux using Octopus

A walk-through of deploying an ASP.NET Core application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Octopus Deploy

Alternative Kubernetes dashboards

A look at some alternative Kubernetes dashboards

Creating Kubernetes pods, ReplicaSets, and deployments

Learn how to create Kubernetes pods, ReplicaSets, and deployments from YAML manifests, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Documentation

Configuring Netscaler

Script to configure a Netscaler load balancer for use with an Octopus High Availability instance.

Install NGINX

With Octopus Deploy you can install NGINX with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Installing Apache

With Octopus Deploy you can install Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Use NGINX as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Create Network Load Balancer

With runbooks, you can automate the creation of a Network Load Balancer to distribute traffic among virtual machine instances in GCP.

Structured configuration variables

The Structured Configuration Variables feature updates your JSON, YAML, XML, and Properties configuration files with values from matching Octopus variables.

Octopus Tentacle

Octopus Tentacle is a lightweight agent service, available on both Windows and Linux servers to communicate securely with the Octopus Server.

Windows Tentacle

How to install Octopus Tentacles on Windows Servers in either listening or polling mode.

Polling Tentacles over WebSockets

Octopus Polling Tentacles open a connection to the Octopus Server over WebSockets to ask what to do.

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