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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.

How to use PowerShell script modules... on Linux

Learn how to use your library of PowerShell script modules on Linux

What is the difference between blue/green and red/black deployments?

The term blue/green and red/black are used to describe deployment strategies, but do they mean different things?

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

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.

Supporting Octopus Deploy customers

Over the last few years we've doubled down on providing the best support possible for our customers.

Octopus will be at DevOps Days London 2019

Octopus is a silver sponsor of this years DevOps Days London.

Still deploying manually? What you're missing

By automating deployments, they become less painful and more reliable, which allows you to make them more frequently.

Octopus Deploy 2.0 API changes - RFC

For Octopus Deploy 2.0 we'll be making some improvements to the HTTP API, as well as documenting it on GitHub.

At the helm with Jessica Ross

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Jessica Ross, Director of User Experience and Design.

How SaaS tenanted deployments would look without automation

We explore how difficult SaaS tenanted deployments would be if we didn't have automation.

At the helm with Bob Walker

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Bob Walker, our Technical Director of Customer Success.

Octopus goes to conferences!

Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.

Why you should not use Lambda aliases to define environments

There are many approaches to running Lambdas across logical environments, but you need to be wary of the pitfalls when using aliases.

WinOps 2019 - Octopus talk and workshop

We’re at WinOps 2019, and we’re running a workshop on Turbocharging your CI/CD pipeline and a talk on Turbocharging Azure DevOps with Octopus Deploy.

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.

RFC: Removing snapshots

Snapshots have been a feature of Octopus since 2012, and they help to ensure that deployment processes are consistent for a given release. In 2015 we added Channels, which appears to make snapshots obsolete. We're considering removing snapshots in 3.4.

Database migrations lessons learned

Learn about database migrations and some lessons learned from using them in the Octopus Deploy codebase.

Empower your team with self-service application deployments

Self-service deployments allow more members of your team to deploy to pre-production environments, but there are some things to consider.

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

Debugging "element does not exist in the collection properties" for SSIS

Learn about issues with package parameters when automating SSIS deployments, and how to avoid an error using different versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server.
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Documentation

Script modules

Script modules allow users to create collections of functions that can be used in deployment processes across multiple projects.

Cloud Target Discovery

Cloud resources can be discovered and registered as deployment targets by Octopus

Database

 Create or drop the Octopus database

Version automation with Service Fabric application packages

Octopus Deploy can help you automate versioning of your Service Fabric application packages.

Blue-green deployments

Implementing blue-green deployments, i.e. having two production environments ("blue" and "green"), with Octopus.

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