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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.What does Microsoft deprecating Azure Service Management APIs mean for Octopus Users?
As Azure begin to deprecate their Azure Service Management APIs, this has knock-on effects for Octopus Users. Although Cloud Service deployments will keep working, Azure Certificate Management Accounts will no longer provide such a rich UX experience.Azure Virtual Machine Extension
Announcing the re-release of the Azure Virtual Machine extension to install Tentacle's on your Cloud VMsRFC: Azure Resource Manager support
Request for comments on support for Azure Resource ManagerScheduled Recurring Deployments RFC
Scheduled recurring deployments is something that many other CI/CD tools provide out-of-the-box, and we think Octopus should support this functionality as well! This is a request-for-comments.Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET
Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.Using Azure Key Vault with Octopus
Introducing a new step template to allow secrets stored in Azure Key Vault to be used in deployments or runbooks.Octopus Deploy 4.0 - UX and UI
The details behind the biggest change to the Octopus user interface and user experience since it's original launch!Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Deploy Release Page Redesign
The Deploy Release page has been redesigned as part of Octopus version 4.010 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments
The 10 pillars of pragmatic Kubernetes deployments is a comprehensive guide to building a repeatable deployment pipeline from Octopus to Kubernetes. Download the ebook.Defining Tomcat context paths
Learn how Tomcat defines the context path of your web application.Config as Code: What is it and how is it beneficial?
Learn about the benefits of Config as Code and some of the considerations when implementing Config as Code.Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Why we chose React over Angular when rewriting the Octopus 4.0 UI
One of the biggest changes in Octopus Deploy 4.0 is a complete portal rewrite in React.Webinar, May 6th: What's new in Octopus 2.4!
Come along to this webinar to learn more about the features in Octopus 2.4Building the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)
Depending on your Linux distro, you may have to build the APR from scratch to take advantage of the higher performance of the OpenSSL library in Tomcat.Database deployments with Flyway and Octopus Execution Containers
Using Octopus Execution Containers and Flyway to deploy database changes.Application Server vs UberJAR
A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.
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Documentation
Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure CLI
How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)Installing the Tentacle VM extension via PowerShell
How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the PowerShellRunning Azure PowerShell
Octopus supports executing PowerShell against Azure and will automatically import the Azure PowerShell modules if they are available.Azure CLI and PowerShell Scripts
Azure CLI and PowerShell Scripts allow you to manage your Azure resources as part of your deployment process.Azure
Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy software to your Windows servers, Linux servers, or cloud regions.Google cloud accounts
Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy infrastructure to GCP and run scripts against the gcloud CLI.SSH key pair account
SSH key pair accounts allow you to securely authenticate with SSH targets.Token account
Add token accounts to Octopus.Username and password accounts
Username and Password Accounts allow you securely authenticate with different services.Google cloud account variables
Create a Google cloud account variable to use it in Google Cloud deployment stepsArtifacts
This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage artifacts in Octopus.Upload Artifact to Existing Deployment
An example script to upload an existing local file as an artifact to an existing deployment.Download Deployment Artifact
An example script to download a deployment artifact to a specified location.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.