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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.Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites
Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web SitesDeploy SQL Server DACPAC with Octopus Deploy
Learn how to deploy SQL Server DACPAC using Octopus Deploy.Using the Octopus API with Bash and jq
Learn how to work with the Octopus API using Bash and jq.Deploying database changes to Cassandra
Learn how to deploy database changes to a Cassandra server using Octopus Deploy and Liquibase.Expanded Script Modules Support
Octopus Deploy now supports script modules for Bash, C#, F# and Python!Ending support for Octopus Server on Windows Server 2008. Introducing Octopus Server on Linux!
Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS will be the final version of Octopus Server which can be hosted on Windows Server 2008, paving the way for Octopus Server on Linux!Active Directory Breaking change in 2019.5
What does the Active Directory breaking change mean for my organisation?Ask Octopus Episode 19-21 - Installing Octopus, Staging deployment packages & Retrying rolling deployments
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Ask Octopus Episode 22-24 - Different package for different step templates, moving Octopus & Octopus Server version comparison
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.SHA1 "Shattered" Collision
How recent SHA1 collision attack discoveries impact Octopus, and PowerShell scripts to detect if you use SHA1 certificatesAzure Virtual Machine Extension
Announcing the re-release of the Azure Virtual Machine extension to install Tentacle's on your Cloud VMsOctopus: High Availability is now available!
Octopus: HA is now available for general use as part of Octopus 3.1.Ask Octopus Episode 25-27 - Centralized Logging, Worker working directory contents & Octopus/TeamCity Integration
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Deployment process enhancements update
A quick overview of some of the enhancements that have been shipped over the last few months to make configuring your deployment process a little bit easierAsk Octopus Episode 28-30 - JSON configuration substitution, Octopus server as cattle & Active Directory breaking changes.
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.
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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 OctopackCreate packages with OctoPack
Using OctoPack is the easiest way to package .NET applications for use in your deployments.Server extensibility
This guide covers everything you need to know for building and customizing Octopus Server extensions.Authoring an Octopus Server extension
Technical details of how to author an Octopus Server extension.Building an authentication provider
Technical details of how to build an Octopus Deploy Authentication Provider.Building a forms based authentication provider
The step involved in building a Forms based Authentication Provider.Building an external authentication provider
The step involved in building an External Authentication Provider.Customizing an Octopus Server extension
Octopus Deploy built-in server extensions are available on GitHub and can be forked and customized.Installing a custom server extension
To install a custom server extension, you need to copy the extension dll into a folder on the machine that is running the Octopus Server.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.