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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.

Installing WildFly From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of WildFly.

Selenium series: modifying HTTP responses

In this post, we learn how to modify network responses passed through BrowserStack.

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Deploying AWS SAM templates with Octopus

Learn how to integrate SAM templates with Octopus deployments for AWS serverless applications.

Enabling Parallel Deployments in Tomcat with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy multiple versions of your web applications to Tomcat through Octopus Deploy

Self-service runbooks for operations teams

Learn about self-service runbooks and how they benefit operations teams

Breaking up monolithic deployments

Learn how to break up a large process into smaller deployable components

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Terraform and Octopus Deploy

In this blog post, I demonstrate using Infrastructure as code from Terraform and Octopus Deploy to create resources and services in Azure.

Kubernetes 1.20 is deprecating Docker Runtime: What does this mean?

With the news that Kubernetes 1.20 is deprecating Docker, there has been a lot of panic. This blog post explains what's happening and what you can do to solve the problem.

Octopus Deploy on Docker quickstart

Learn how to configure Octopus Deploy to run on Docker on your local computer in just five minutes.

Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part one

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi.

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part two

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy.

Create an AKS Cluster with Pulumi and Octopus Deploy

Learn how to create an Azure Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) using Pulumi, Python, and Octopus Deploy

Our most popular webinars in 2020

Join us as we list out our favorite webinars of 2020.

On the naming of “DevOps Engineers”

Why is this job title so controversial? What's a better option?

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy to MongoDB using Liquibase.

Octopus Deploy Gradle plugin

Learn how to use the Octopus Deploy Gradle plugin
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Documentation

Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

With Octopus Deploy you can install Tomcat on Ubuntu with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Upgrading major releases of Octopus Deploy

Information on how to upgrade major releases of Octopus Deploy.

Upgrading minor and patch releases of Octopus Deploy

Information on how to upgrade major releases of Octopus Deploy.

Reporting

Octopus reporting makes it easy to produce reports over your deployment history, using your preferred reporting tools.

Retention policies

Retention policies allow you to specify the releases, packages and files you want to keep as well as the ones you want cleaned up.

Retention policy Tentacle cleanup and troubleshooting

Reviewing and troubleshooting why some files aren't cleaned up by Octopus retention policies.

Upgrading Octopus

Everything you need to know about upgrading Octopus to a newer version.

Troubleshooting Access Denied Starting Http Listener

A guide for troubleshooting start up error "Access Denied starting HTTP Listener"

Add domain teams

An example script that adds teams from a new domain to existing Octopus teams.

Change users domain

An example script that changes an Octopus user's Active Directory domain assignment.

Deploy existing release with prompted variables

An example script to deploy an existing release with prompted variables.

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