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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.

Octopus 2.0 Public Beta

RFC: Azure Service Fabric support

This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy in the GitHub Marketplace

We launched the Octopus Deploy App for GitHub, available now for Octopus Cloud customers. The app removes the need to manage GitHub credentials in Octopus.

Exporting and importing projects between spaces

In Octopus 2021.1 we've introduced a new feature to export and import projects.

Wizards, dialogs and context menus, or build servers and scripts?

Reflecting on the benefits of continuous integration tools, I'm wondering whether our focus on great CI support has meant Octopus is too hard to simply get started with. How can we improve the getting started story?

At the helm with Michael Richardson

This post opens a series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they're working on improve the product, and more. First is Michael Richardson, our original product management leader.

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Inside DevOps with Dan Horrocks-Burgess from DDA Software

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Dan Horrocks-Burgess of DDA Software.

Insight Partners invests $172.5M in Octopus Deploy

Insight Partners is one of the largest and most successful venture funds in the world, and they’ve invested USD $172.5m in Octopus Deploy. Find out more.

What is shadow IT?

When we talk about Shadow IT, we're talking about IT resources that an organization doesn't have visibility on. Find out how this affects your business, and how runbooks can help.

Providing environment specific configuration for JavaScript projects

Whether it's a React, Angular, or NodeJS application, you often need configuration to be supplied that differs from one environment to the next. The safest way to accomplish this is to make use of your deployment tooling.

Eating our own dog food

How using Octopus to manage Octopus Cloud has helped us eat our own dog food and improve

Selenium series: Implementing Cucumber

In this post, we see how to integrate Cucumber with WebDriver.

Benefits of isolated tenanted infrastructure

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

End-to-end testing with Cypress

Learn how to run end-to-end tests with Cypress as part of an Octopus deployment.

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

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

Cloning a space using the Octopus API

With the Octopus API, it is possible to clone almost everything you need in a space.

Deploying applications to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a multi-environment Kubernetes cluster and deploy an application to it.

The ultimate guide to Tomcat deployments

Learn how to create a secure, highly available, load-balanced Tomcat cluster with zero downtime deployments.

Using Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

This post shows you how to use Operations Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.

Introducing long-term Support for Octopus Server

In Q4 2018 we will be shipping our first release of Octopus Server with long-term support.

Deploying an AWS ECS task using containers from ECR

Deployments to AWS ECS using containers from ECR are now possible using the new multi-package feature of Octopus script steps

Running manual tests against cloud infrastructure deployed by Octopus

Learn how to run tests against infrastructure that was previously deployed by Octopus.

Real Life DevOps - Representing Internal Environment Names With Target Roles

We can use Target Roles to track tenant specific environment names while using combined Dev / Test / Prod environments in Octopus.

Octopus presenting at Redgate's SQL in the City Summit

Bob Walker and Derek Campbell will be presenting at Redgate's SQL in the City Summit this month in London and Chicago on how database DevOps can help you stay ahead of the competition.

Selenium series: headless browsers

In this post, we learn how to run tests against headless browsers.

Documentation

Docker Containers

Octopus allows you to treat Docker images as immutable build artifacts that are moved through each stage of deployment by running them as containers with deploy-time specific configuration.

Troubleshooting failed or hanging tasks

A guide for troubleshooting tasks that fail unexpectedly or are unresponsive

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