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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.

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.

Running unit tests in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in GitHub Actions and process the results.

Running end-to-end tests in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration, learn how to run end-to-end tests in GitHub Actions and capture the results.

Java CI/CD: From JAR to Docker

In this post, we learn how to convert a Java application to a Docker image.

Installing WildFly From Scratch

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

Running unit tests in Jenkins

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in Jenkins and capture the results.

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

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

Installing Tomcat From Scratch

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

Using dynamic build agents to automate scaling in Jenkins

With some setup, Jenkins can automatically react to your processing needs, creating extra nodes to manage processes. This post explains 2 setup methods.

Deploying a Java web app with a MySQL backend through Octopus Deploy

This post demonstrates how to deploy a Java web application that uses a MySQL backend using Octopus Deploy.

Documentation

Projects

Projects let you create and manage your deployment processes, releases, and operations processes.

Coordinating multiple projects

This guide covers scenarios where it is necessary to co-ordinate deployment between multiple projects and take some action that depends on their combined status.

Deploy a release step

The deploy a release step allows you to trigger the deployment of a release of a project from another project

Project coordination code samples

Project coordination guide code samples that show how to perform various tasks covered in the guide.

Project triggers

Project Triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project such as automatically deploying a release to an environment.

Automatic release creation

Automatic release creation allows you to automatically create a new release when a new package is pushed to the built-in package repository.

Deployment target triggers

Deployment target triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project that will cause an automatic deployment of a release into an environment.

Scheduled deployment triggers

Automatic deployment triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project that will cause an automatic deployment of a release into an environment.

Variables

Defining variables in Octopus allows you to promote your applications through environments and update their configuration files.

AWS account variables

Create an AWS account to use it in AWS-related deployment steps

Azure account variables

Create an Azure account variable to use it in Azure deployment steps

Certificate variables

Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the value

Library variable sets

Library variable sets allow you to define and share common variables between your Octopus projects.

Output variables

Output variables allow you to set dynamic variables in one step that can be used in subsequent steps.

Prompted variables

Prompted variables allow you to prompt a user to enter a value rather than storing it in Octopus.

Sensitive variables

Sensitive variables allow you to define secret values used in your applications that can be securely stored in Octopus, or retrieved from a Secret Manager/Key Vault using one of our community step templates.

System variables

System variables are variables provided by Octopus that can be used in your deployments.

Variable filters

Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.

Variable substitutions

Variable substitutions are a flexible way to adjust configuration based on your variables and the context of your deployment.

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