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Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

The ultimate guide to rolling deployments

What are rolling deployments and why are they useful? This post covers the rolling deployment pattern and practical examples of how to implement it with different tooling.

DORA metrics - The predictive link between DevOps practice and business outcomes

What are the DORA metrics? Why do they matter? How can you use them to drive improvement?

Config as Code and persistence ignorance

Read about the Core Platform team’s experience with persistence ignorance while developing the new Config as Code feature.

Config as Code strategies

Learn good practices for using Config as Code and how to adjust your strategy in different situations.

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments

Octopus 2022 Q1: Config as Code for deployments is now available. Plus new integrations and an acquisition.

Best practices for Octopus Spaces

Find out how to use Octopus Spaces effectively.

What is GitOps?

GitOps is an exciting new paradigm, but it can be hard to understand exactly what the term means.

Publishing a package to a local Octopus instance with GitHub Actions

Learn how to push a package to a local instance of Octopus Deploy with a GitHub Actions Runner

At the helm with Trish Khoo

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Trish Khoo, our Director of Engineering

Automating support emails with Octopus Runbooks

You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.

Create a private AWS VPC with CloudFormation

Learn how to create a private AWS VPC with this sample CloudFormation template.

Create a public AWS VPC with CloudFormation

Learn how to create a public AWS VPC with this sample CloudFormation template.

Create a mixed AWS VPC with CloudFormation

Learn how to create a mixed AWS VPC with this sample CloudFormation template.

Implementing DevSecOps to respond to vulnerabilities

As part of our series about Runbooks, learn how to configure your CI/CD pipeline to quickly identify and respond to vulnerabilities.

Smoke testing your infrastructure with runbooks

Learn how to use runbooks to perform high level smoke tests against your applications and infrastructure.

Configuring Jenkins in Azure and deploying with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Jenkins instance in Azure and deploy with Octopus.

Managing AWS costs with Instance Scheduler

Learn how to deploy and configure the Instance Scheduler to shutdown unused AWS resources.

At the helm with Bob Walker

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Bob Walker, our Technical Director of Customer Success.

Creating AMI mappings for CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to create region AMI mappings for use with CloudFormation templates.

Calculating DORA metrics with Runbooks

Learn how to measure the performance of your deployments using the DORA metrics and a custom runbook.

Mixing Keys in Tomcat

Learn how to configure Tomcat to support both RSA and ECDSA certificates on a single HTTPS port.

Generating instance types lists for CloudFormation

As part of our series on Runbooks, learn how to generate a list of available instance types to include in CloudFormation templates.

Creating an EC2 Octopus Worker with CloudFormation

Learn how to deploy an EC2 configured as an Octopus Worker via a 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

Automatic Step Template Updates

How automatic updates of built-in steps using the new step package format work

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry

How to add an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Registry as an Octopus feed

Amazon S3 Create Bucket

Create a new bucket in Amazon S3.

Register SSH target

An example script to register an SSH target using the REST API.

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