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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 Deploy 3.4 EAP

Octopus Deploy 3.4 is a big release, get involved in steering the direction of key features! Multi-tenant deployments. Elastic environments and transient machine support - machine policies.

Running SQL Server Developer in a Windows-based Docker Container

SQL Server can run in a Windows-based docker container, how can developers leverage that on their development machines?

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Alpha 2

Octopus Deploy 3.4 is a big release, get involved in steering the direction of key features! Multi-tenant deployments. Elastic environments and transient machine support - machine policies and project triggers!

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 1

Octopus 3.4 has finally reached beta maturity, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: now with multi-tenant deployments, improved support for elastic and transient environments, Cloud Regions, and proxy support for Tentacle communications.

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 2

Octopus 3.4 Beta 2 is ready, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: improvements on Beta 1 plus NuGet v3, SemVer 2, and F# Script support.

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Automated blue/green database deployments

Learn some techniques for automating database deployments when using a blue/green deployment strategy.

Better Octopus Integration with Azure DevOps

We recently updated our Azure DevOps extension, and it has some great new features that can improve your delivery pipeline.

Running SQL Server Developer in a Linux-based Docker Container

How to run SQL Server Developer in a Linux-based Docker container.

BuildDeploySupport: Sharing PowerShell scripts in Octopus

A guest blog post by Jonathan Goldman on his open source project that makes it easier to share PowerShell scripts in Octopus projects.

Write your own PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) module

How to write your own PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) module

Bootstrap Tentacle installation with Powershell DSC

Install and configure Tentacles using the power of Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Integrating OAuth with Kubernetes

Integrating Google OAuth into a Kubernetes cluster.

Creating an EKS cluster with eksctl

Creating EKS clusters is now a trivial task with eksctl. In this post, we’ll learn how to create a cluster and integrate it with Octopus.

Considerations for browser UI testing

A look at some of the limitations and workaround for performing browser-based UI testing

Planning Octopus 2.0

We're planning some big changes for Octopus 2.0. We need to avoid second system syndrome as well as resting on our laurels.

Semantic Versioning 2.0.0

Octopus 3.4 introduces support for Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

Octopus goes to conferences!

Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.

Booting Tomcat in Docker with the manager app

Learn how to boot a standard Tomcat Docker image with the manager app exposed and ready to accept deployments

Introducing dark mode

Octopus 2020.1 introduces a dark theme to Octopus Deploy.

Octopus 2020.1: Dark mode and better Linux support

Octopus 2020.1 includes dark mode support, AWS and Azure built-in steps are now cross-platform, the Octopus CLI is now available via Homebrew, Yum, and APT and enviroment specific worker pools.

Add post-deployment scripts to Oracle database deployments using Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, and Redgate

In Part 2 of this series of deploying to Oracle databases we will expand on the existing process to include post-deployment scripts and swap out TeamCity with Jenkins.
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Documentation

Create sanitized database backup

How to create a sanitized database backup to send up to Octopus Support.

Creating a test instance

A guide on how to create a test instance with Octopus Deploy

Upgrading from Octopus 4.x / 2018.x to latest version

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 4.x or 2018.x to the latest version

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x to the latest version

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 3.x to the latest version

Upgrading host OS or .NET

A how-to guide on how to upgrade the host OS or .NET with Octopus Deploy.

Allow release progression

Allows a release to progress to next phase

Prevent release progression

Prevents a release from progressing to next phase

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