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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.

How SaaS tenanted deployments would look without automation

We explore how difficult SaaS tenanted deployments would be if we didn't have automation.

How global tenanted deployments would look without automation

We explore how difficult global tenanted deployments would be if we didn't have automation.

How deployments to physical branches would look without automation

We explore how difficult tenanted deployments to company branches would be if we didn't have automation.

Azure changes in 3.1

We recently made big changes to deployment targets and Azure cloud services in Octopus 3.0, and it turns out we got our design wrong. In 3.1, we'll be reverting to the 2.6-era way of deploying cloud services. This change will also affect the way we deploy Azure web apps.

Exploring Istio by example

In this post, we look at a very simple sample application that we’ll use to explore the functionality of Istio.

Introducing Octopus security advisories

Updating the way we keep our customers informed about product security

Safe schema updates - Database delivery hell

This post opens a series about safe schema updates with a brief tour through Dante's 9 levels of Database Delivery Hell.

RFC: Lifecycles

Lifecycles enable automation and rules around promotion

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

New Home for Octopus Documentation

After our documentation hosting provider went under, we decided to change where we host our docs.

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

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.

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 2

Octopus 3.4 Beta 2 is ready, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: improvements on Beta 1 plus NuGet v3, SemVer 2, and F# Script support.

Building trust in an automated database deployment process

Learn techniques to build trust in your automated database deployment process and gain confidence in every part of the process.

Negotiating with the gatekeepers

Building trust relationships between humans is rarely as simple as comparing thumbprints.

Webinar: Automating deployments with VSTS and Octopus Deploy

Announcing a webinar with Brian A. Randell and Damian Brady to show the Octopus Deploy extension for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

Platform Engineering should be part of DevOps

Find out why Platform Engineering is more likely to succeed with DevOps than without it.

Rolling back a Tomcat deployment

Learn how to roll back an application deployed to an Apache Tomcat server.

Why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment

Find out why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment, plus the ways how.

Why visibility is important for modern deployments

We look at the reasons why reporting and visibility are important for modern deployments

Octopus Deploy High Availability

Octopus: HA makes it possible to set up a high performance, reliable Octopus Deploy cluster. This post explains the architecture, and the kinds of scenarios it does and doesn't support.

Public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd

At Octopus Deploy, we’ve been running a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd for over 12 months now, and we’re pleased to make it public.
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Migrator import

Using the Octopus.Migrator.exe command line tool to import data from an Octopus 3.0 or newer directory.

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