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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.Prioritizing deployments
Prioritize your deployments. Fast-tracking deployments has never been easier.RFC: Improving the deployment process
Proposed changes to better support using Octopus to deploy in distributed environments.The difference between day-0, day-1, and day-2 operations
We break down the difference between the 3 major phases of operations in DevOps.How to build a PowerBI report for Octopus Deploy
Learn how to build PowerBI reports for Octopus Deploy that will show you deployment and runbook history in Octopus Deploy.Calculating DORA metrics with Runbooks
Learn how to measure the performance of your deployments using the DORA metrics and a custom runbook.How to measure DevOps mean time to recovery (MTTR)
Find out why mean time to recovery has problems and what to do about it.Safe schema updates - Continuous Integration is misunderstood
Learn about the principles that define Continuous Integration, and why you should avoid adopting specific practices, without knowing how to use them effectively.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.Automated database deployment process: case study
This article walks through the steps I used to help design an automated database deployment process.The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book
Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.The state of config file formats: XML vs. YAML vs. JSON vs. HCL
Learn about the different configuration file formats that are available and when you should use them.Java deployments to Tomcat with YAML and XML configuration file replacements
Learn how to take advantage of the XML, YAML, and Properties configuration file replacement when deploying Java applications.Introduction to HCL and HCL tooling
Learn about the different tooling you can use with HCL.Deploying to Oracle with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase
Learn how to deploy to Oracle using Octopus Deploy and Liquibase.Runbook lessons learned and recommendations
Recommendations from lessons learned on how to design and implement runbooksRFC: Azure Service Fabric support
This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus DeployIntegrating Octopus and Grafana
Learn how to use the Octopus Grafana datasource plugin to visualize your deploymentsDeconstructing blue/green deployments in Kubernetes
Learn how to manually implement blue/green deployments in Kubernetes and Octopus.Exposing Octopus variables to a Kubernetes container
Learn how to use the envFrom feature in Kubernetes to pass groups of variables to a container.Creating multi-environment Kubernetes deployments
Learn how to securely deploy across multiple environments in a single Kubernetes clusterOctopus 2020.5: Solid improvements and Config as Code update
Octopus 2020.5 introduces support for self-signed certificates, GitHub container registry support, Kubernetes and Terraform improvements and more.
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Deploy Amazon ECS Service
Deploy a service to an Amazon ECS cluster.Workers
External workers are machines that can execute steps that don't need to be performed on the Octopus Server or deployment targets.Environment recommendations
Environments form the backbone of your deployment pipeline. Here we provide some recommendations for configuring your environments to better prepare you to scale your Octopus Deploy instance up and out as you add more projects.Administration
Octopus administration tasks and command reference.Project recommendations
Projects form a critical element in Octopus Deploy. Here, we cover some recommendations for projects; getting started on the right foot is vital in helping your Octopus Deploy instance scale.High Availability
Octopus High Availability (HA) enables you to run multiple Octopus Server nodes, distributing load and tasks between them.How to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades
A how-to guide on how to automate Octopus Deploy upgradesCan't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.