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MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud 1.0

Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud, the SaaS version of Octopus, and how it shaped our plans for Octopus Cloud 2.0.

ASP.NET Core 1 build & deployment pipelines with TeamCity and Octopus

ASP.NET Core 1 and the dotnet CLI makes publishing applications a first-class feature of the platform. This post explains how to hook it into your build & deployment pipeline.

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files with Octopus Deploy

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

Migrating 426 Nancy API endpoints to ASP.NET Core controllers

We migrated Octopus Deploy to a more standardized way of writing an API, using ASP.NET controllers. Learn about our implementation strategy: Derisk, Enable, Finish.

Migrating an ASP.NET web app from IIS on-premises to an Azure App Service

Learn how to migrate an ASP.NET web app from hosting it on-premises to an Azure App Service in the Cloud.

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET

Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.

Use TFS with Octopus? We want to hear from you!

We're planning some improvements to the way we integrate Octopus Deploy with TFS, and we'd love to get your feedback.

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app - Will it Deploy? Episode 1

We try to automate the deployment of a ASP.NET core web app to Microsoft's Azure platform with infrastructure provisioning and zero production downtime.

Deploying an ASP.NET MVC web app to Azure with AppVeyor and Octopus - Will it Deploy? Episode 6

Deploying an ASP.NET MVC web app to Azure with a cloud-based delivery pipeline using AppVeyor and Octopus - Will it Deploy? Episode 6

Deploying an ASP.NET Core web app to Linux - Will it Deploy? Episode 7

Deploying an ASP.NET Core web app to an AWS Ubuntu Linux VM with SQL Server for Linux - Will it Deploy? Episode 7

Kubernetes deployments made easy - Octopus Deploy 2018.9

Kubernetes deployments made easy! Octopus 2018.9 includes our first-class support for Kubernetes Deployments including infrastructure support for Kubenetes Clusters and rich deployment steps to simplify your deployment process.

Deployment targets in Octopus 3.0 (RFC)

Listening and Polling Tentacles, SSH, Azure Websites, Azure Cloud Services, WebDeploy, offline drops and more.

Using Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

This post shows you how to use Operations Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.

Leveraging Multi-Tenancy to create team and developer sandboxes

The software we write often has dependencies on other team's applications. Learn how you can use the multi-tenancy feature in Octopus Deploy to carve out sandboxes for each team.

Why we chose Kubernetes, Linux, and .NET Core for Octopus Cloud

A reflection on the architectural options we considered for hosting Octopus Cloud v2.

Octopus Deploy 3.3

What's new in Octopus Deploy 3.3

UI design for eventual consistency

UI design for eventual consistency

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

Using classes in custom step templates

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

Building the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)

Depending on your Linux distro, you may have to build the APR from scratch to take advantage of the higher performance of the OpenSSL library in Tomcat.

Octopus 3.1 will require .NET 4.5

Octopus and Tentacle have always been built against .NET 4.0, but from Octopus 3.1 onwards we'll be building against .NET 4.5.

Reliably deploying large Azure Web Apps

How to reliably deploy large Azure Web Apps using Octopus Deploy

Using Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

Using Cake’s C# makefiles to script your application build process.

Wizards, dialogs and context menus, or build servers and scripts?

Reflecting on the benefits of continuous integration tools, I'm wondering whether our focus on great CI support has meant Octopus is too hard to simply get started with. How can we improve the getting started story?
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Documentation

ASP.NET Core webapp

This guide covers everything you need to perform your first ASP.NET Core webapp deployment.

Create and push an ASP.NET Core project

This guide describes how to package and publish an ASP.NET Core project to Octopus from your development workstation.

Ad-hoc data change scripts

Recommendations on configuring a pipeline to handle ad-hoc data change scripts.

Configure Octopus Deploy project

This guide describes how to configure your Octopus project to deploy an ASP.NET Core project together with an Angular CLI project and configuring NGINX to a Linux deployment target.

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