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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.

Automating Octopus with Azure Functions

Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.

Hosting a Maven repo in Amazon S3

Learn how to host a fully functional Maven repository in Amazon S3

Trust Me - Assigning and Assuming IAM Roles

Learn how to use roles assigned to EC2 instances and assume secondary roles.

WildFly S3 Domain Discovery

Learn how to use S3 buckets as a domain discovery mechanism in AWS.

Managing Ansible Deployments with Octopus

Learn how to deploy Ansible scripts from Octopus

Octopus React UI Permissions

Inside look into the React UI permissions

Deleting Releases via the Command Line

Continuous Delivery of Octopus

How we're delivering higher quality releases of Octopus Deploy in less time.

Coordinating Projects with the Deploy Release Step

We have introduced a new 'Deploy Release' step type which allows coordination between Octopus Projects

Deploy .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus

Learn how to deploy your .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus.

Creating a WildFly cluster

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

RFC: Branching

5 Remote Desktop Alternatives

Five alternative Remote Desktop tools

Safe schema updates - Resilient vs robust IT systems

Learn about the nature of failure in complex IT systems, and the benefits and drawbacks of designing for resilience vs robustness.

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files with Octopus Deploy

Automated deployment with TFS Team Build and Octopus Deploy

Previous deployments

In 2.5.4 we added the ability to more easily view previous deployments

Creating dynamic run conditions with new Octostache filters

Learn how to use new filters in Octostache with variable run conditions.

Getting started with LDAP auth provider

Learn how to configure your self-hosted Octopus Deploy instance to work with the new LDAP auth provider.

Introducing the Workato connector for Octopus Deploy

Learn how the new Workato connector lets you easily integrate other systems with Octopus Deploy.

RFC: Linux Deployments

Documentation

Swap AD group with LDAP group

An example script that swaps any active directory external group for a matching LDAP external group in each Octopus team.

Add domain teams

An example script that adds teams from a new domain to existing Octopus teams.

Upload to AWS S3 template

Upload to AWS S3 template.

Restore SQL database to another environment

With Octopus Deploy you can restore a MSSQL database to another environment with a runbook.

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.

LDAP Authentication

Octopus Deploy can use LDAP authentication to identify users.

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