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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.

Creating a WildFly cluster

Learn how to use a shared database to create a WildFly cluster in AWS.

Octopus Deploy Gradle plugin

Learn how to use the Octopus Deploy Gradle plugin

Building the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)

Depending on your Linux distro, you may have to build the APR from scratch to take advantage of the higher performance of the OpenSSL library in Tomcat.

Insight Partners invests $172.5M in Octopus Deploy

Insight Partners is one of the largest and most successful venture funds in the world, and they’ve invested USD $172.5m in Octopus Deploy. Find out more.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Maven repositories explained

Learn how Maven repositories are structured and how to access artifacts stored in them.

Spring Boot as a Service

Learn how to deploy Spring Boot fully executable JAR files to EC2 Linux instances as services

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Selenium series: The Maven POM file

In this post, we create a simple Pom.xml file, configuring the Selenium dependencies.

Managing Ansible Deployments with Octopus

Learn how to deploy Ansible scripts from Octopus

Installing Tomcat From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of Tomcat.

The ultimate guide to Tomcat deployments

Learn how to create a secure, highly available, load-balanced Tomcat cluster with zero downtime deployments.

Using Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

This post shows you how to use Operations Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.

Database deployments with Flyway and Octopus Execution Containers

Using Octopus Execution Containers and Flyway to deploy database changes.

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

Release management with dynamic infrastructure

Support redeployments for a suite of application components, by leveraging the Deploy Child Octopus Deploy Project step template with dynamic infrastructure.

Maven versions explained

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Maven versions. Learn how Maven treats different version strings.

What's new in Octopus 2.4

Step templates, script modules, a new Library tab - a ton of new features!

Deploying a Ruby web application

Learn how to deploy a Ruby web application using Octopus Deploy.

Using Infrastructure as Code with Operations Runbooks

This post discusses how to leverage Operations Runbooks with Infrastructure as Code

What's New in Octopus 3.4: Elastic and Transient Environments

Exploring one of the major new feature sets in Octopus 3.4: Elastic and Transient Environments

What's New in Octopus 3.4: Multi-tenant deployments

Exploring one of the major new feature sets in Octopus 3.4: Multi-tenant deployments

Using Ad-Hoc Scripts in your Automated Database Deployment Pipeline

Using Ad-Hoc Scripts in your Automated Database Deployment Pipeline

Documentation

Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

With Octopus Deploy you can install Tomcat on Ubuntu with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Artifacts

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage artifacts in Octopus.

Upload Artifact to Existing Deployment

An example script to upload an existing local file as an artifact to an existing deployment.

Download Deployment Artifact

An example script to download a deployment artifact to a specified location.

Download Runbook Artifact

An example script to download a runbook artifact to a specified location.

Environment permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to a specific permission for a specific environment.

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