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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.

Automating Octopus with Azure Functions

Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.

Feature prioritization: do votes trump all?

What factors need to be considered when deciding which features to implement first?

How we think about creating new architecture

Creating a new architecture can be daunting. Find out how we approach creating new architecture within Octopus, with real examples to tame complexity and achieve success.

Deploying PHP applications with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy PHP applications using Octopus Deploy.

Feature branching web apps

Learn how to deploy and manage Azure Web App feature branches in Octopus Deploy.

Octopus Deploy vs. Puppet/Chef

What's the difference between Octopus and Puppet/Chef?

Octopus Deploy 4.0 blog series kickoff

Octopus 4.0 is nearing completion and we'd love to share some of the best features and some behind-the-scenes details.

Packaging Node.js applications

Just because you are using Node.js, don't violate the principle of build-once, deploy-many

Using HashiCorp Vault with Octopus

Introducing step templates that allow secrets stored in HashiCorp Vault to be used in deployments or runbooks.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Variable Editor Redesign

The variable editor has been revamped for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Debugging "element does not exist in the collection properties" for SSIS

Learn about issues with package parameters when automating SSIS deployments, and how to avoid an error using different versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server.

Documentation

Notifications

Guidelines and recommendations for notifications in Octopus Deploy.

Ongoing Maintenance

Guidelines and recommendations for ongoing maintenance with Octopus Deploy.

Projects and Project Groups Structure

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring projects and project groups in Octopus Deploy.

Step Templates and Script Modules

Guidelines and recommendations for creating re-usable components in Octopus Deploy.

Users, Roles, and Teams

Guidelines and recommendations for managing RBAC in Octopus Deploy.

Variable Recommendations

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring variables in Octopus Deploy.

Offload Work to Workers

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring workers in Octopus Deploy.

Terraform plugin cache

Using plugin caches with Terraform

Lifecycles and Environments

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring your lifecycles to control the flow to your environments

Partition Octopus with Spaces

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring spaces in Octopus Deploy.

Releases and Deployments

Guidelines and recommendations for creating releases and deploying them in Octopus Deploy.

Bulk Operations

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to perform a variety of bulk operations using the Octopus Deploy API.

Bulk add a project to a list of tenants

An example script that will add a project to a lot of tenants at once.

Reports

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to generate comma separated reports using the Octopus Deploy API.

Project permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to specific projects.

Export projects

An example script that will export projects that can be imported into a different space on the same, or different Octopus instance.

Import projects

An example script that will import projects from a previously executed export task from another space on an Octopus instance.

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