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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 support emails with Octopus Runbooks

You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.

Octopus 2.0 Task Output: RFC

The tasks screen will get an update in Octopus 2.0. Here are some mockups.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.

Introducing the Octopus Control Center

We want our customers to love their Octopus experience. We knew we could do better with the Octopus Account, so we've redesigned it. Find out what's changed.

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instance

Deploying to IBM WebSphere Liberty

Learn how to deploy to an IBM WebSphere Liberty web server with Octopus Deploy.
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Documentation

Polling Tentacles with HA

With Octopus High Availability, Polling Tentacles must poll all of the Octopus Server nodes in your configuration.

Designing Octopus HA in AWS

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in AWS.

Designing Octopus HA in Azure

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Microsoft Azure.

Designing Octopus HA On-Premises

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability including database and shared storage set up for on-premises servers.

Samples instance

View real-world deployment and runbook examples in our Octopus Cloud samples instance - https://samples.octopus.app

Designing Octopus HA in GCP

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

Packaging applications

Packaging applications for deployment with Octopus Deploy.

Package repositories

Octopus can consume package feeds from the built-in repository, local and remote NuGet feeds, Maven, JetBrains TeamCity, MyGet and Azure DevOps or TFS Package Management.

Promote a release not in the destination

An example script that will promote a release if it is not in the destination.

Create sanitized database backup

How to create a sanitized database backup to send up to Octopus Support.

Providing database performance metrics

How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.

Record memory snapshots

How to record memory snapshots of your running Octopus Server so we can solve memory issues.

Record a performance trace

How to record a software performance trace of your running Octopus Server so we can solve performance issues.

Best Practices

Some of the best practices you can adopt to set yourself up for success in using Octopus Deploy.

Deployment and Runbook Processes

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring deployment and runbook processes in Octopus Deploy.

Environments, Deployment Targets, and Roles

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring environments, deployment targets, and lifecycles in Octopus Deploy.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

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.

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