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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

Octopus May Release 3.13

This month's release brings some exciting new features including support for Azure Service Fabric, HSTS, optional lifecycles and performance improvements, among other things!

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Octopus May Release 2018.5

Octopus 2018.5 features our next generation of Azure support.

RFC: Azure Resource Manager support

Request for comments on support for Azure Resource Manager

What is an un-tenanted deployment in 3.4?

Octopus 3.4 introduces multi-tenant deployments to allow you to deploy your releases to the same environment within the context of different tenants! So what happens if you don't want to deploy a release to a tenant?

Docker Compose RFC

Bringing Docker Compose functionality to Octopus Deploy

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

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.

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?

Chicago ALM user group: Automating deployments with Octopus Deploy

Ian Paullin will be talking about Octopus at the Chicago ALM user group on May 21st
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Documentation

Report on deployments using SQL

How to report on deployments using Excel & XML

Troubleshooting failed or hanging tasks

A guide for troubleshooting tasks that fail unexpectedly or are unresponsive

Troubleshooting authentication problems

A guide for troubleshooting authentication problems in Octopus Deploy.

Username and password accounts

Username and Password Accounts allow you securely authenticate with different services.

Capture and export a HAR file

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

Troubleshooting

Solutions to common problems with Octopus High Availability (HA).

Providing database performance metrics

How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.

Record a performance trace

How to record a software performance trace of your running Octopus Server so we can solve performance issues.

Manually fail a task

How to manually fail a running or canceling task when tasks hang or get stuck.

Octopus database

Octopus uses a Microsoft SQL Server Database to store environments, projects, variables, releases, and deployment history.

Moving the Octopus home directory

Information on how to move any of the Octopus Server folders.

Move the Octopus home folder and the Tentacle home and application folders

How to move the Octopus home folder and the Tentacle home and application folders.

Moving Octopus Server folders

Information on how to move any of the Octopus Server folders.

Private cloud migration

Guidelines for migrating an on-premises Octopus instance to private cloud hosting

Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing the latest version of Tentacle.

Record a problem with Octopus Deploy in your web browser

This page describes how you can record HTTP traffic between your browser and Octopus Server. This is especially helpful if you are having a problem with Octopus Deploy in your web browser. It includes instructions for taking a screen recording and web traffic capture, for diagnosing issues.

Migration

How to migrate from an Octopus Server instance running on Windows Server or in a Windows Container to one running in a Linux Container.

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