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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.

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy to MongoDB using Liquibase.

Octopus Deploy Gradle plugin

Learn how to use the Octopus Deploy Gradle plugin

Octopus Deploy 2.0 has shipped!

A summary of key features in 2.0

Octopus Tentacle on ARM/ARM64

Tentacle now supports ARM/ARM64 hardware

Do you build your binaries once?

Getting started with the Terraform provider for Octopus Deploy

Introducing the official Terraform provider for Octopus Deploy. Learn how to manage Octopus instances with Terraform.

Deploying AWS Lambdas across environments

Learn how to progress Lambda deployments across environments using CloudFormation

Canary deployments with ECS

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

Importing variables with the Octopus REST API

How the REST API can be used to add variables

Creating workers with the Tentacle Docker image

Learn how to use the Tentacle Docker image to create workers using Azure container services

Empower your team with self-service application deployments

Self-service deployments allow more members of your team to deploy to pre-production environments, but there are some things to consider.

Documentation

Deploy existing release with prompted variables

An example script to deploy an existing release with prompted variables.

Authentication provider compatibility

Compatibility of authentication providers differ between Octopus Server and Octopus Cloud.

Octopus versioning scheme

Details of the versioning scheme used by Docker feeds

Deployments

Deployment examples, patterns and practices, and their practical implementation using Octopus.

AWS

Octopus Deploy provides built-in support for deploying to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Deploy an AWS CloudFormation template

Deploy an AWS CloudFormation Template.

AWS permissions required by Octopus

Details of the AWS permissions required by the CloudFormation steps in Octopus.

Delete an existing AWS CloudFormation stack

Delete an existing AWS CloudFormation stack.

Upload to AWS S3 template

Upload to AWS S3 template.

Azure

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments of your applications into Azure.

Azure app service environments

This guide covers deploying to Azure App Service Environments.

Azure environments

Information on how to use alternate Azure environments.

Azure Cloud Services

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments to Azure Cloud Services.

VIP swap

The guide demonstrates how to perform a VIP swap when deploying to Azure Cloud Services.

Azure web apps

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments to Azure web apps.

Deploying Web Jobs

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments of your applications into Azure Web Jobs.

Using Deployment Slots with Azure Web Apps

Deploying Slots provide a nice way to implement Blue-Green deployments for Azure Web Apps.

Deploying to Azure via a firewall

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments of your applications into Azure.

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