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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.

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?

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

Using dynamic build agents to automate scaling in Jenkins

With some setup, Jenkins can automatically react to your processing needs, creating extra nodes to manage processes. This post explains 2 setup methods.

An introduction to build servers and Continuous Integration

This post opens our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, with an overview on the benefits of build servers, particularly Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

10 of our favorite Jenkins plugins

Jenkins has over 1800 community-created plugins to help with continuous integration. Here are 10 we think are useful, as part of our series about CI and build servers.

How to install Jenkins on Windows and Linux

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via the traditional installers.
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Documentation

Auditing

Octopus Deploy captures audit information whenever significant events happen in the system.

Automatic Step Template Updates

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

Container registries

Instructions on how to set-up third-party container registries as external package feeds for Octopus to consume for use in deployments and runbooks.

AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

How to add an AWS Elastic Container Registry as an Octopus feed

Azure Container Registry

How to add an Azure Container Registry as an Octopus Deploy feed

Docker Hub

How to add Docker Hub as an Octopus Deploy feed for use in Docker steps.

GitLab container registry

Configuring a GitLab container registry as an Octopus feed.

Google Cloud Container Registry (GCR)

How to add a Google Cloud Container Registry (GCR) as an Octopus feed

Nexus Container Registry

How to add a Nexus Docker Registry as an Octopus feed

GitLab Maven repository

Configuring a GitLab Maven repository as an Octopus feed.

Nexus Hosted Maven repository

Configuring a Nexus Hosted Maven repository as an Octopus feed.

NuGet repositories

Instructions on how to set-up third-party NuGet repositories as external package feeds for Octopus to consume for use in deployments and runbooks.

Artifactory Local NuGet repository

Configuring an Artifactory Local NuGet repository as an Octopus feed.

GitLab NuGet repository

Configuring a GitLab NuGet repository as an Octopus feed.

Nexus Hosted NuGet repository

Configuring a Nexus Hosted NuGet repository as an Octopus feed.

Azure DevOps and TFS package management

Configuring an Azure DevOps or TFS package management NuGet feed as an Octopus feed.

Maven repositories

Instructions on how to set-up third-party Maven repositories as external package feeds for Octopus to consume for use in deployments and runbooks.

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