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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.

Invoking an executable from PowerShell with a dynamic number of parameters

Calling an executable from PowerShell is easy - most of the time, you just put an `&` in front. But it gets tricky when you need to pass in a variable length list of parameters. This blog post shows you how.

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.

Multi-tenancy release management with Octopus Deploy

How to use the new Deploy Child Octopus Deploy Project step template for multi-tenancy releases.

Selenium series: simplified element location

In this post, we learn how to remove explicit element searches by ID, XPath, and CSS selectors in favor of generic locators.

Selenium series: Implementing Cucumber

In this post, we see how to integrate Cucumber with WebDriver.

An introduction to DevOps

To open our series about runbooks, we take a surface-level look at the concepts, tools, and roles of DevOps, plus how Octopus fits in.

SQL Server deployment options for Octopus Deploy

A brief summary of the most popular SQL Server deployment tools used with Octopus Deploy

How DevOps principles power Octopus documentation

How DevOps principles power Octopus documentation producing 60 guides with 300,000 words, 6,000 images and 25 hours of video maintained by a team of two.

Refactoring Octopus: Adding strict null checks to the Octopus front-end

Learn from some of the lessons we learned adding strict null checks to the Octopus front-end codebase

Rollback strategies with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to implement a rollback strategy with Octopus Deploy, without having to use advanced deployment patterns.

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.

Leveraging Multi-Tenancy to create team and developer sandboxes

The software we write often has dependencies on other team's applications. Learn how you can use the multi-tenancy feature in Octopus Deploy to carve out sandboxes for each team.

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

Octopus Pipe for Bitbucket: octopus-cli-run

Learn how to integrate Octopus and BitBucket with our new experimental BitBucket Pipe called octopus-cli-run.

How we work - 2016 edition

An update on how we work as a team to build and support Octopus.

Octopus 2020.2: Execution containers for workers

Octopus 2020.2 includes execution containers for workers, better rolling deployments, and code editor improvements.

Refactoring Octopus: Modularity, Calamari, and Sashimi

Learn how our engineering team re-factored the Octopus codebase to introduce modularity, reduce complexity, and eat some sashimi.

Rolling back a Tomcat deployment

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

Rolling back a Kubernetes deployment

Learn how to rollback an application deployed to Kubernetes.

How to export metrics from Windows Kubernetes nodes in AKS

A guide to setting up Prometheus metric exporting from Windows nodes in your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster.
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Common patterns

Common patterns in database deployments

Ad-hoc data change scripts

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

Troubleshooting build server integrations

General guide to troubleshoot integrations between build servers such as TeamCity or Azure DevOps with Octopus Deploy

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

Deploy Amazon ECS Service

Deploy a service to an Amazon ECS cluster.

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