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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.

A first look at Tekton Pipelines

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

Deploying to Tomcat from Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to Tomcat hosted on a Linux server with Octopus Deploy

Benefits of isolated tenanted infrastructure

Learn the different ways you can isolate your customers' data and why we recommend isolated infrastructure.

Octopus Server 2019.6 with Long Term Support (LTS)

Octopus Server 2019.6 LTS is the third release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for self-hosted customers.

Deploying PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) like an App with Octopus Deploy

Use Octopus Deploy custom step templates and configuration data files (DSC configuration) to deploy your Infrastructure as Code using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).

Working at Octopus - a story of silicon and steel

A history of the computers I have enjoyed as a result of the Octopus Deploy computer policy.

Importing variables from SSISDB

Use PowerShell and the Octopus Deploy API to automate importing variables from SSISB

Thoughts from my User Experience Journey

Thoughts and takeaways from my recent journey with the Onboarding team, diving further into user-experience.

October Community Roundup

A summary of blogs and community events for October 2015

Introducing Octopus ID

Introducing our plans for single sign-on and new account features, using Octopus ID.

Introducing Linux Tentacle for Highly Secured Linux Servers

Octopus Deploy now supports Tentacles on Linux

Ask Octopus Episode 31-33 - Incremental changes, using Octopus.Client with different Spaces and Auto Scaling groups with Octopus Deploy

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten and how we went about solving them.

Documentation

Manual approvals

Recommendations and techniques for configuring manual approvals in an automated database deployment process.

Bamboo

Octopus Deploy and Bamboo can work together to make automated, continuous delivery easy.

BitBucket Pipelines

Octopus Deploy can be integrated with your BitBucket Pipelines build chain with the help of the Octopus CLI.

Continua CI

Continua CI is a continuous integration server from the makers of FinalBuilder; version 1.5 adds special support for Octopus Deploy.

Jenkins

Jenkins can work together with Octopus Deploy to create releases, push packages, push build information, and execute deployments.

TeamCity

Octopus Deploy and TeamCity can work together to make automated, continuous delivery easy.

Azure DevOps

Octopus Deploy integrates with Azure DevOps to provide for a full automated build and deployment pipeline.

Using the Octopus extension

Octopus Deploy and Azure DevOps can work together to make automated, continuous delivery easy.

Build versions and packaging in Azure DevOps

A guide to build version numbers in Azure DevOps, and how they work with packages for Octopus.

Azure DevOps and Team Foundation Server Extension Version Compatibility

This guide explains the Octopus extension versions that are compatible with different versions of Azure DevOps and Team Foundation Server

Troubleshooting build server integrations

General guide to troubleshoot integrations between build servers such as TeamCity or Azure DevOps with Octopus Deploy

Compatibility

Backward compatibility between Octopus Server and related components

Create packages

Create packages for deployment with Octopus Deploy.

Create packages with OctoPack

Using OctoPack is the easiest way to package .NET applications for use in your deployments.

Include BuildEvent files

Using OctoPack when you have a PostBuild event in Visual Studio and want to include files that are not specifically part of your build.

Troubleshooting OctoPack

Troubleshooting NuGet packages and Octopack

Versioning schemes

Considerations for selecting a versioning scheme for the applications you'll deploy.

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