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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.

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.

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!

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

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

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.

'Tis the week before Christmas...

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

How to use PowerShell script modules... on Linux

Learn how to use your library of PowerShell script modules on Linux

What is the difference between blue/green and red/black deployments?

The term blue/green and red/black are used to describe deployment strategies, but do they mean different things?

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

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

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.

From zero to Octopus hero - Getting to know Octopus Deploy

Join Sarah Lean as she learns about Octopus Deploy.

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.

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?

Operations Runbooks: Putting the Ops in DevOps

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

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Request for Comments - Dynamic infrastructure

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

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.

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Szymon Pobiega: Evaluating OctopusDeploy in the context of an ISV

Using multiple OctopusDeploy instances in the context of an ISV

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Why we chose React over Angular when rewriting the Octopus 4.0 UI

One of the biggest changes in Octopus Deploy 4.0 is a complete portal rewrite in React.
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Documentation

Database backups and rollbacks

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

Script modules

Script modules allow users to create collections of functions that can be used in deployment processes across multiple projects.

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.

Cloud Target Discovery

Cloud resources can be discovered and registered as deployment targets by Octopus

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