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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.

Deploy your first container to Kubernetes via Octopus

Learn how to perform your first container deployment

A first look at Tekton Pipelines

This blog explores Tekton Pipelines and discusses how they fit into the CI/CD ecosystem

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part one

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi.

Importing and deploying your first Octopus project

Import your first project in Octopus Deploy and deploy a tutorial to an Azure web application for your organization.

My First Year Working at Octopus

Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.

Introducing our first release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS

Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS is the first release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

Selenium series: The first WebDriver test

In this post, we create the first WebDriver tests against Chrome and Firefox.

Ask Octopus Episode 4 - Scheduled Deployments, Multiple Teams Sharing One Project, and Channel Version Rules

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 5 - An Interview with the CEO and creator of Octopus Deploy Paul Stovell in Brisbane. We discuss the origins of Octopus and what we will be doing in the coming year.

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.

Using DbUp and workers to automate database deployments

Using DbUp and workers to automate database deployments

Automatic approvals for your database deployment automation

In this post, we will examine some techniques on how to auto approve database changes to stop overwhelming your DBAs.

Ask Octopus Episode 10 - Subscriptions, System Security and Redeploy Failed Releases

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.

Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

A guest post from Daniel Nolan of ReadyRoll on Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

Automation with Octopus.Client

One of the benefits of being API first is that you can do anything that the Octopus UI does via web requests. We have a handy library called Octopus.Client that wraps the API and makes it easy to perform operations on your Octopus Deploy Server. This article will focus on some common operations using PowerShell.

Tracking your work from code to deployment

A look at the new custom metadata capabilities in Octopus.

Better release notes with templates and automatic generation

A look at release notes templates and automatic release notes generation in Octopus.

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.

What is the difference between blue/green and red/black deployments?

The term blue/green and red/black are used to describe deployment strategies, but do they mean different things?

Documentation

First Runbook Run

This section will walk you through how to configure your first runbook run in Octopus Deploy.

First Deployment (2022.2 and below)

This section will walk you through how to configure your first deployment in Octopus Deploy.

First Deployment

This section will walk you through how to configure your first deployment in Octopus Deploy.

Add deployment targets

Step by step guide on how to add deployment targets in Octopus Deploy.

Approvals with Manual Interventions

Step by step guide on how to use Manual Interventions in Octopus Deploy for approvals

Define and use variables

Step by step guide on how to define and use variables in an Octopus Deploy deployment.

Deploy a sample package

Step by step guide on how to deploy a sample package Octopus Deploy

Migrating from Octopus Server to Octopus Cloud

Migrating from Octopus Server to Octopus Cloud.

Copy the working directory

Copy the Calamari working directory to assist in debugging.

Kubernetes cluster

How to configure a Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus

Built-in Octopus repository

Using the Octopus built-in repository.

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