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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.

Documentation

Passing parameters to scripts

Octopus can pass parameters to your custom script files for any of the supported scripting languages.

Using variables in scripts

With Octopus you can define variables for use with your custom scripts.

Databases

Database deployments

Common patterns

Common patterns in database deployments

Ad-hoc data change scripts

Recommendations on configuring a pipeline to handle ad-hoc data change scripts.

Automatic approvals

Recommendations and techniques on how to configure automatic approvals in an automated database deployment process.

Database backups and rollbacks

Recommendations on backing up and rolling back a database during a failed deployment.

Manual approvals

Recommendations and techniques for configuring manual approvals in an automated database deployment process.

Database configuration

Configuring your database and Octopus Deploy for database deployments.

Recommended database permissions

Permission recommendations for database deployments.

Install Tentacles and Workers for database deployments

Where to install Tentacles and how to configure Workers.

MySQL flyway deployment

How to do MySQL database deployments with Flyway.

SQL Server deployments

Automating deployments to SQL Server

SQL Server DACPAC deployment

How to do database deployments with DACPAC.

SQL Server permissions

Permission recommendations for deployments to SQL Server.

Deploy to SQL Server using Redgate SQL change automation

Guide to configuring Octopus Deploy to deploy to SQL Server with Redgate SQL change automation

Docker Containers

Octopus allows you to treat Docker images as immutable build artifacts that are moved through each stage of deployment by running them as containers with deploy-time specific configuration.

Accessing container details

Docker steps provide access to container details, including network, volume, environment variables etc., and make them available in subsequent steps.

Docker run with networking

This guide demonstrates the basic functionality provided by the Octopus Docker steps.

.NET deployments

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable, reliable deployments of your .NET applications.

ASP.NET Core webapp

This guide covers everything you need to perform your first ASP.NET Core webapp deployment.

HTML and JavaScript applications

This guide provides a simple example of deploying and configuring a simple JavaScript application built using AngularJS.

Java applications

Deploy to WildFly, Red Hat JBoss EAP and Tomcat using Octopus Deploy

Deploying a sample Java application

This guide provides a simple example of deploying a Java application with Octopus Deploy.

Java error messages and troubleshooting

Java deployment steps include a number of unique error codes that may be displayed in the output if there was an error

Kubernetes

Octopus Deploy provides support for deploying Kubernetes resources.

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster.

Deploy an Ingress resource

Deploy an ingress resource to a Kubernetes cluster.

Deploy a service resource

Deploy a service resource to a Kubernetes cluster.

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