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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.

Bulk deletion of Kubernetes resources

Learn how to delete Kubernetes resources like pods in bulk.

Database deployments with Flyway and Octopus Execution Containers

Using Octopus Execution Containers and Flyway to deploy database changes.

Have you designed your application for deployment?

Strategies and ideas to simplify the deployment process of applications.

Octopus Deploy 2017 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2017, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI

Enable tab completion for the Octopus CLI today! We'll also dive into how shell completion works in some popular shell environments.

Paved versus golden paths in Platform Engineering

Find out the critical difference between paved paths and golden paths in Platform Engineering.

Octopus Deploy 2018 Roadmap

This post outlines our roadmap for 2018, and all of the improvements we're planning to make to Octopus over the next year.

Reflections on 2017

A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update

Reusable YAML with CircleCI orbs

An overview of using and creating CircleCI Orbs.

Taming the Kraken: How to protect your data

Learn how to keep your data safe when Octopus Deploy is deploying your database updates.

Safe schema updates - Database delivery hell

This post opens a series about safe schema updates with a brief tour through Dante's 9 levels of Database Delivery Hell.

DORA metrics - The predictive link between DevOps practice and business outcomes

What are the DORA metrics? Why do they matter? How can you use them to drive improvement?

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 runbooks

RFC: Azure Service Fabric support

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

Integrating Octopus and Grafana

Learn how to use the Octopus Grafana datasource plugin to visualize your deployments

Documentation

migrate

Imports data from an Octopus 2.6 backup

Migrator import

Using the Octopus.Migrator.exe command line tool to import data from an Octopus 3.0 or newer directory.

Install autocomplete

Install a shell auto-complete script into your shell profile, if they aren't already there. Supports pwsh, zsh, bash & powershell.

Migration API

Octopus includes a migration API that provides the ability to back-up and restore parts of an Octopus Deploy instance remotely.

Manual approvals

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

Automatic approvals

Recommendations and techniques on how to configure automatic approvals in an automated database deployment process.

Create release

Using the Octopus CLI to create releases.

Add Azure Active Directory login to users

An example script to add Azure Active Directory login details to Octopus user accounts.

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.

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