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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.

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

Deconstructing blue/green deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to manually implement blue/green deployments in Kubernetes and Octopus.

Exposing Octopus variables to a Kubernetes container

Learn how to use the envFrom feature in Kubernetes to pass groups of variables to a container.

Creating multi-environment Kubernetes deployments

Learn how to securely deploy across multiple environments in a single Kubernetes cluster

Octopus 2020.5: Solid improvements and Config as Code update

Octopus 2020.5 introduces support for self-signed certificates, GitHub container registry support, Kubernetes and Terraform improvements and more.

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.

Documentation

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.

Administration

Octopus administration tasks and command reference.

Project recommendations

Projects form a critical element in Octopus Deploy. Here, we cover some recommendations for projects; getting started on the right foot is vital in helping your Octopus Deploy instance scale.

High Availability

Octopus High Availability (HA) enables you to run multiple Octopus Server nodes, distributing load and tasks between them.

How to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

A how-to guide on how to automate Octopus Deploy upgrades

Creating a test instance

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

Upgrading host OS or .NET

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

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x to the latest version

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

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 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.

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