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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.

Dynamically setting TeamCity version numbers based on the current branch

When you are using TeamCity to build a project with multiple branches, it's desirable to have different build numbers depending on the branch. This post explains how to dynamically set the TC build number depending on the current branch.

Common deployment patterns and how to use them in Octopus

Deployment patterns are important to any development pipeline. This post looks at some common deployment patterns and explains how to set them up in Octopus.

Invoking an executable from PowerShell with a dynamic number of parameters

Calling an executable from PowerShell is easy - most of the time, you just put an `&` in front. But it gets tricky when you need to pass in a variable length list of parameters. This blog post shows you how.

Using Google Cloud Secret Manager with Octopus

Introducing a new step template that allows secrets stored in Google Cloud Secret Manager to be used in deployments or runbooks.

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

Safe schema updates - Near-zero downtime database deployments

This post discusses how we can only deploy often if we can do it without disruption.

Converting many environments to tenants via the Octopus API

Learn how to use the Octopus API to automate the creation of multiple tenants from many existing environments.

Using AWS Secrets Manager with Octopus

Introducing a new step template to allow secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager to be used in deployments or runbooks.

Encrypting connection strings in Web.config

Encrypting connection strings section in Web.config with Octopus Deploy

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x is easier than you think

Why and how to upgrade from Octopus 3.x.

Creating an EKS cluster in AWS

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to create an EKS cluster in AWS.

Building and publishing a Docker image to ECR using GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration, learn how to build a Docker image in GitHub Actions and publish it to ECR.

Running end-to-end tests in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration, learn how to run end-to-end tests in GitHub Actions and capture the results.

Running unit tests in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in GitHub Actions and process the results.

Building a Docker image in Jenkinsfile and publishing to ECR

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to build a Docker image in Jenkinsfile and publish to ECR.

How to install Jenkins on Docker

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via a Docker image.

How to install a Jenkins instance with Helm

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via Helm.

Running end-to-end tests in Jenkins

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run end-to-end tests in Jenkins and capture the results.

Running unit tests in Jenkins

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in Jenkins and capture the results.
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Documentation

Deploy Amazon ECS Service

Deploy a service to an Amazon ECS cluster.

New Octopus Target Command

Function for creating an Octopus target for a step package

Remove Octopus Target Command

Cmdlet for removing an Octopus target

Add Tenants to targets

An example script to associate a list of tenants to one or more deployment targets.

Designing Octopus HA in GCP

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Telemetry

Telemetry from Octopus Server and what is included

Octopus Server Linux Container

Running the Octopus Server in the official Docker Linux container

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