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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.

Selenium series: The first WebDriver test

In this post, we create the first WebDriver tests against Chrome and Firefox.

Introducing our first release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS

Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS is the first release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

Ask Octopus Episode 4 - Scheduled Deployments, Multiple Teams Sharing One Project, and Channel Version Rules

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

A first look at Tekton Pipelines

This blog explores Tekton Pipelines and discusses how they fit into the CI/CD ecosystem

Importing and deploying your first Octopus project

Import your first project in Octopus Deploy and deploy a tutorial to an Azure web application for your organization.

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part one

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi.

A first look at Jenkins X

Jenkins X is a complete mental shift from the traditional role of a CI server. In this post, we take a high-level look at Jenkins X and highlight why you need to appreciate it on its own terms.

My First Year Working at Octopus

Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.

Deploy your first container to Kubernetes via Octopus

Learn how to perform your first container deployment

Octopus Deploy 3.4

Octopus Deploy 3.4 RTW

Deploy a Helm chart with Octopus

Learn how to deploy a sample Helm chart to Kubernetes with Octopus

Importing Kubernetes YAML in Octopus

Learn how to import existing Kubernetes YAML into Octopus steps

Custom kubectl scripting in Octopus

Learn some of the tricks for scripting against kubectl in Octopus

Execution Containers for Workers

Octopus 2020.2 adds the ability to execute deployment actions inside a container

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.

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.

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

Database Deployments with Redgate SQL Change Automation, GitHub Actions, and Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use GitHub Actions to build a Redgate SQL Change Automation Package and push it to Octopus Deploy for deployments.

Re-thinking feature branch deployments

Feature branches should be tested prior to merging into master. All too often, companies have a single static test environment.

Database Feature Branch Deployments

Standing up a sandbox for feature branches is a common scenario. This article aims to solve that for databases.
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Documentation

First Deployment (2022.2 and below)

This section will walk you through how to configure your first deployment in Octopus Deploy.

First Deployment

This section will walk you through how to configure your first deployment in Octopus Deploy.

First Runbook Run

This section will walk you through how to configure your first runbook run in Octopus Deploy.

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