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Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off
Octopus 3.4 blog series kick off with links to posts talking about new feature deep dives and the decisions that went in to building them.Octopus Spaces blog series kick off
Octopus Spaces blog series kick offAutomated Database Deployments Series Kick Off
Automated Database Deployments Series Kick OffOutage on octopus.com - report and learnings
Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.How to design an automated database deployment process
This article walks you through designing your ideal automated database deployment process.Benefits of isolated tenanted infrastructure
Learn the different ways you can isolate your customers' data and why we recommend isolated infrastructure.Octopus Workers and Performance
Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performanceOctopus Workers
Octopus now supports external worker machinesAutomated database deployment process: case study
This article walks through the steps I used to help design an automated database deployment process.Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy
A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.Licensing and support/maintenance changes
Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0Ask Octopus Episode 6 - An Interview with Nick Josevski in Brisbane. We discuss all things Spaces!
Special Ask Octopus session based at Octopus's annual kick off in Brisbane.Reflections on 2017
A recap of 2017, including progress on our roadmap and a general company update10 of our favorite actions for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a newcomer to Continuous Integration and provides CI as a Service. Here are 10 of our favorite actions to install from the GitHub Marketplace.Introducing slugs in Config as Code
A brief overview of slugs, why we chose to them, and how they're used in Config as Code.The big 5 benefits of automated deployment
A guest post that explores the benefits of automated deployments.Encrypting connection strings in Web.config
Encrypting connection strings section in Web.config with Octopus DeployDeployment process enhancements update
A quick overview of some of the enhancements that have been shipped over the last few months to make configuring your deployment process a little bit easierOctopus July Release 2018.7
Octopus 2018.7 - Sharing the Workload with Workers!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 teamHow we are using SQL Server in Octopus 3.0
Octopus 3.0 will be built on top of SQL Server. In this post I discuss how we'll be using SQL Server, the editions we support, and high availability plans.
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Documentation
Built-in Worker
Octopus Server comes with a built-in worker which enables you to conveniently run parts of your deployment process on the Octopus Server without the need to install a Tentacle or other deployment target. This page describes how to configure the built-in worker for a variety of scenarios.Automatic Step Template Updates
How automatic updates of built-in steps using the new step package format workManual intervention and approval step
Manual intervention and approvals allow a human to review, approve, or sign off on deployments.Delta compression for package transfers
Octopus delta compression for package transfers can dramatically reduce the time for package acquisition during deployment.Deprecations
Upcoming and past deprecations by version for Octopus ServerWorker pools
Worker pools are used to group workers and allow targeting steps at the pool of workers best equipped to execute the step. This page describes how to configure worker pools for a variety of scenarios.Spaces
Spaces setup and configuration.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.