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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 Spring Boot Applications as Windows Services

Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot application as a Windows service with Octopus Deploy

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Defining Tomcat context paths

Learn how Tomcat defines the context path of your web application.

Config as Code: What is it and how is it beneficial?

Learn about the benefits of Config as Code and some of the considerations when implementing Config as Code.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Why we chose React over Angular when rewriting the Octopus 4.0 UI

One of the biggest changes in Octopus Deploy 4.0 is a complete portal rewrite in React.

Webinar, May 6th: What's new in Octopus 2.4!

Come along to this webinar to learn more about the features in Octopus 2.4

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.

Database deployments with Flyway and Octopus Execution Containers

Using Octopus Execution Containers and Flyway to deploy database changes.

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

Release management with dynamic infrastructure

Support redeployments for a suite of application components, by leveraging the Deploy Child Octopus Deploy Project step template with dynamic infrastructure.

Maven versions explained

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Maven versions. Learn how Maven treats different version strings.

What's new in Octopus 2.4

Step templates, script modules, a new Library tab - a ton of new features!

Deploying a Ruby web application

Learn how to deploy a Ruby web application using Octopus Deploy.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Using the WildFly CLI

Learn how to use the WildFly CLI to query and configure a WildFly application server.

Kubernetes Pod Service Account authentication

Learn how to create a Kubernetes deployment target using the Pod Service Account authentication mode.

Octopus Deploy Release 4.0

Octopus Deploy 4.0 includes a great new UI refresh and a great user experience!

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus Deploy
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Documentation

Artifacts

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage artifacts in Octopus.

Upload Artifact to Existing Deployment

An example script to upload an existing local file as an artifact to an existing deployment.

Download Deployment Artifact

An example script to download a deployment artifact to a specified location.

Download Runbook Artifact

An example script to download a runbook artifact to a specified location.

Environment permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to a specific permission for a specific environment.

Update variable set variable value

An example script that loads variables from a variable set, looks for a match and replaces the variable value.

Capture and export a HAR file

How to capture a HAR file to help the Octopus team diagnose problems when something unexpected happens.

Tenants

Tenants allow you to easily create customer specific deployment pipelines without duplicating project configuration.

Multi-tenant deployment guides

Guides showing you how to use the multi-tenancy feature in Octopus for common scenarios.

Multi-tenant regions

A guide showing you how to use tenants to deploy an application to regions using different release rings in Octopus Deploy.

Tenant infrastructure

Add tenants to infrastructure as part of a multi-tenant region setup in Octopus Deploy.

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