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Checking Kubernetes pod CPU and memory

Learn how to check a pod's resource usage in Kubernetes.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Building a dynamic worker army with Terraform and AWS autoscaling groups

How to create dynamic worker infrastructure using Terraform and AWS autoscaling groups.

Octopus Workers and Performance

Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performance

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Running task cap and High Availability

Very soon we'll be launching Octopus: High Availability (HA) edition. To prepare for High Availability, we're making a few changes which will make it easier to manage Octopus server workloads.

How Octopus 3.0 blows 2.6 out of the water

Running SQL Server Developer in a Windows-based Docker Container

SQL Server can run in a Windows-based docker container, how can developers leverage that on their development machines?

Using the new ECS deployment step

Learn how to implement the new ECS deployment step.

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

Deploying an AWS ECS task using containers from ECR

Deployments to AWS ECS using containers from ECR are now possible using the new multi-package feature of Octopus script steps

'Tis the week before Christmas...

It's nearly the holidays, so it's a great time to reflect on Octopus's year.

Canary deployments with ECS

Learn how to use an external deployment controller to perform Canary deployments in ECS

Deploying a microservice to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn the features available in Octopus to streamline and manage Kubernetes deployments with an example microservices application stack.

Octopus July Release 2018.7

Octopus 2018.7 - Sharing the Workload with Workers!

Documentation

Provision AWS resources with Terraform

With runbooks, you can use Terraform to create resources in AWS.

Performance

Octopus is all about reliable and repeatable deployments, but that doesn't mean it has to be slow. This page will help you tune your Octopus installation for the best performance in your scenario.

How High Availability Works

Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.

Record a performance trace

How to record a software performance trace of your running Octopus Server so we can solve performance issues.

Delta compression for package transfers

Octopus delta compression for package transfers can dramatically reduce the time for package acquisition during deployment.

Spectre (Speculative Execution Side-Channel Vulnerabilities), Meltdown, and Octopus Deploy

How the Spectre (speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities) and meltdown vulnerabilities impact Octopus Deploy

Record memory snapshots

How to record memory snapshots of your running Octopus Server so we can solve memory issues.

Legacy Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing legacy versions of Tentacles.

Performance

Octopus is all about reliable and repeatable deployments, but that doesn't mean it has to be slow. This page will help you tune your deployments for the best performance in your scenario.

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster.

Offload Work to Workers

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring workers in Octopus Deploy.

Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing the latest version of Tentacle.

ZipBombs and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Server actively prevents ZipBomb-based denial-of-service attacks using a number of preventative measures.

NuGet feeds

Configuring NuGet repositories as Octopus Feeds

Telemetry

Telemetry from Octopus Server and what is included

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