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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.

Creating a Kubernetes Operator with Kotlin

Learn what Kubernetes Operators are, and see an example Kotlin Operator

My First Year Working at Octopus

Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.

Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

Learn how to build and configure a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun and development purposes.

How we work. Some recent lessons

Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed team

Octopus goes to conferences!

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

Lessons learned with home automation

Lessons learned implementing home automation.

Changing website port on each deployment

Blue/green style deployments by varying the port number between each deployment

Octopus 3.0: Released!

Today we announce the release of Octopus 3.0

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus Deploy

Festive Tech Calendar - Octopus hackathon

Get involved with the Octopus Deploy hackathon and you could win one of three Octopus swag bundles.

Service Fabric Deployment Targets

With the release of 2018.5 and the introduction of Azure Service Fabric Cluster targets, we thought it'd be the perfect opportunity to provide a quick overview of the new Service Fabric deployment targets with Octopus Deploy.

Why you should take a look at Kotlin's standard library

See how run, let, also and apply can improve your Kotlin code.

'Tis the week before Christmas...

It's nearly the holidays, so it's a great time to reflect on Octopus's year.

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app - Will it Deploy? Episode 1

We try to automate the deployment of a ASP.NET core web app to Microsoft's Azure platform with infrastructure provisioning and zero production downtime.

Inside DevOps with Jason Dunnivant from Olo

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our first post features Jason Dunnivant, Release Engineer at Olo.

The difference between day-0, day-1, and day-2 operations

We break down the difference between the 3 major phases of operations in DevOps.

Public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd

At Octopus Deploy, we’ve been running a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd for over 12 months now, and we’re pleased to make it public.

From zero to Octopus hero - Octopus features and integrations

Join Sarah as she continues to learn more about Octopus, this time looking at Octopus Deploy's features, plus integrations with other tools.

At the helm with Bob Walker

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Bob Walker, our Technical Director of Customer Success.

Our most popular webinars in 2021

Join us as we list out our favorite webinars of 2021.

Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.

Deploying TeamCity to Kubernetes using Octopus Deploy

Learn how to spin up a build server on demand using Octopus Deploy and Kubernetes

An Octopus Christmas Carol

A look at Octopus in 2022 through the lens of deployments past, present, and yet to come

Enabling Parallel Deployments in Tomcat with Octopus Deploy

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

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Shaping Configuration as Code

We've been busy recently building Configuration as Code support for Octopus Deploy. Learn about some of the factors that shaped this feature.
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Output variables

Output variables allow you to set dynamic variables in one step that can be used in subsequent steps.

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