Search
Blog posts
Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings
Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.PowerShell and exit code 0
Exit code 0 in PowerShell can signify anything from "the script ran perfectly" to "your script is so horribly broken that Windows needs to be treated for PTSD". Here's how we handle it in Octopus.Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 1
Octopus 3.4 has finally reached beta maturity, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: now with multi-tenant deployments, improved support for elastic and transient environments, Cloud Regions, and proxy support for Tentacle communications.Library variable set permission changes
Some upcoming changes to how library variable set permissions workIntroducing Operations Runbooks for your operations team
Introducing runbooks for your operations team. It’s now possible to run operations and maintenance tasks like file clean-ups, backup and restore jobs, as well as disaster recovery failovers.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.Octopus Cloud: Western Europe region is now available
Octopus Cloud: Western Europe region is now availableKubernetes deployment strategies visualized
See pods being deployed with either rolling updates, recreates, or blue/green deployments.Runbooks best practices
This post provides a step by step template you can use to generate high quality runbooks in Octopus.Still deploying manually? What you're missing
By automating deployments, they become less painful and more reliable, which allows you to make them more frequently.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.Expanding Proxy Support
Octopus 3.4 introduces expanded proxy support so Octopus Server and Tenacle can now communicate to each other through HTTP proxies.What is an un-tenanted deployment in 3.4?
Octopus 3.4 introduces multi-tenant deployments to allow you to deploy your releases to the same environment within the context of different tenants! So what happens if you don't want to deploy a release to a tenant?Tenant aware lifecycles
Introducing multiple tenants to your deployment process in 3.4.0 has impacts on how that release progresses through its life cycle. Tenants can define required environments and un tenanted deployments can ensure deployments can be made where a tenant context is not relevant.Deploying to dynamically provisioned infrastructure
How to dynamically include new infrastructure during a deploymentDeploying software shouldn't feel like visiting the dentist
Reasons you should deploy early and often.The big 5 benefits of automated deployment
A guest post that explores the benefits of automated deployments.The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment
Why and how your should automate your database deploymentsRFC: Improving the deployment process
Proposed changes to better support using Octopus to deploy in distributed environments.Why consider database deployment automation?
This post explores why automating scripts to deploy database changes is valuable and some of the benefits of database deployment automation.The Evolution of Auto-Deployments and Event-Sourcing
Octopus 3.4 introduces elastic and transient environments and this post explores the evolution of auto-deployments in this context.Keeping environments clean
Octopus 3.4 introduces the concept of machine policies which enable the automatic deletion of unavailable machines after a configurable time period has elapsed.Script Parameters
Octopus 3.3.21 introduces ability to pass parameters to scripts.Defining variables in a multi-tenant world
Exploring how to define variables in a multi-tenant world.Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off
Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off with links to posts talking about new feature deep dives and the decisions that went in to building them.
Loading...
Documentation
Variable filters
Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.Variable substitutions
Variable substitutions are a flexible way to adjust configuration based on your variables and the context of your deployment.Variable templates
Variable templates can be defined in Octopus to indicate which variable values are required to successfully deploy a project.The Octopus Command Line (CLI)
The Octopus CLI (octo) is the Octopus command line tool that builds on top of the Octopus REST API.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.