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Request for Comments - ECS integration with Octopus milestone two

Provide your feedback on the proposed second ECS integration milestone in Octopus.

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

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy.

Introducing our second release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS

Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS is the second release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

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

Polling Tentacles over standard HTTPS port

Learn how to use port 443 for Polling Tentacles instead of the non-standard 10943.

An Introduction to Hollow JARs

Learn what Hollow JARs are and how you can create them from you existing WAR files.

Octopus Deploy's Kubernetes YAML generator

Learn how to use our Kubernetes YAML generator, and deploy a Kubernetes cluster.

Create a private AWS VPC with CloudFormation

Learn how to create a private AWS VPC with this sample CloudFormation template.

Selenium series: Exposing Gherkin steps

In this post, we investigate the regular expressions that make up complex Gherkin steps

Selenium series: Writing a Gherkin feature

In this post, we write a complete test in Gherkin

Selenium series: mixing implicit and explicit waits

In this post, we learn how implicit and explicit waits can interfere with each other.

Selenium series: simplified element location

In this post, we learn how to remove explicit element searches by ID, XPath, and CSS selectors in favor of generic locators.

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.

Tips to avoid duplicating deployment steps

Deploying AWS SAM templates with Octopus

Learn how to integrate SAM templates with Octopus deployments for AWS serverless applications.

RFC: Azure and FTP steps

Looking for comments on two features we're currently building: Azure and FTP support

Kubernetes deployment strategies visualized

See pods being deployed with either rolling updates, recreates, or blue/green deployments.

Enabling Parallel Deployments in Tomcat with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy multiple versions of your web applications to Tomcat through Octopus Deploy

Continuous Deployment class from BBV in Switzerland

Two day training course on scripting with psake, Generating installers with WiX, and Octopus Deploy

Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?

What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?

Documentation

How High Availability Works

Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.

CSV download

Download your data as a CSV

System and space permissions

An explanation of the two levels that permissions can apply at, the Space and the System.

Docker run with networking

This guide demonstrates the basic functionality provided by the Octopus Docker steps.

Blue-green deployments

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

Run a health check

An example script that creates and runs a health check task.

Configure Octopus High Availability with Active Directory

A step-by-step guide showing you how to configure Octopus in High-Availability using Active Directory.

Configure Octopus High Availability without Active Directory

A step-by-step guide showing you how to configure Octopus in High-Availability without using Active Directory.

Users, Roles, and Teams

Guidelines and recommendations for managing RBAC in Octopus Deploy.

Variable Recommendations

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring variables in Octopus Deploy.

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