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Webinar - CI/CD Pipelines - Real-World, Expert Optimization Tips & Tricks

Practical advice for optimizing your CI/CD pipeline

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Your guide to SHIPPED23 - Wednesday, November 15

SHIPPED23 is an all-day virtual event by Octopus Deploy on November 15, 2023. Join us for discussions about managing complex hybrid deployments at scale.

Defining a target architecture

How to approach defining a target architecture for your software systems.

Announcing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud is now generally available!

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.

At the helm with Jessica Ross

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 Jessica Ross, Director of User Experience and Design.

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

How recent SHA1 collision attack discoveries impact Octopus, and PowerShell scripts to detect if you use SHA1 certificates

From zero to Octopus hero - Getting to know Octopus Deploy

Join Sarah Lean as she learns about Octopus Deploy.

Inside DevOps with Anton Zagrebelny from Stigg

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Anton Zagrebelny from Stigg.

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

Proper scrutiny is important, but CABs are an inefficient and ineffective way to scrutinize.

Database deployment automation approaches

This post talks about how to get started with database deployment automation and describes the main approaches: state-based and migration scripts.

Operations Runbooks: Putting the Ops in DevOps

Operations Runbooks put the Ops in DevOps and automate routine maintenance and emergency operations (incident response) tasks.

Request for Comments - Dynamic infrastructure

We're making changes to how Octopus manages dynamic infrastructure and we want your feedback.

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

How deployments to physical branches would look without automation

We explore how difficult tenanted deployments to company branches would be if we didn't have automation.

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

'Tis the week before Christmas...

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

Running SQL Server Developer in a Windows-based Docker Container

SQL Server can run in a Windows-based docker container, how can developers leverage that on their development machines?

Selenium series: Implementing Cucumber

In this post, we see how to integrate Cucumber with WebDriver.

Deploy your first container to Kubernetes via Octopus

Learn how to perform your first container deployment
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Database backups and rollbacks

Recommendations on backing up and rolling back a database during a failed deployment.

SHA1 "Shattered" collision and Octopus Deploy

How the SHA1 "Shattered" Collision impacts Octopus Deploy

PCI compliance and Octopus Deploy

Using Octopus Deploy in PCI compliant environments.

Security

Security considerations for Octopus Administrators.

Troubleshooting Active Directory integration

Information on troubleshooting common Active Directory integration issues.

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.

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