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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!

Integrating ServiceNow and Octopus to increase efficiency: Unily’s story

Unily uses Octopus and ServiceNow to manage complex deployments to all customers. In this post, we dive into Unily’s solution and how the integration helps minimize downtime and increase efficiency.

Running unit tests in Jenkins

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to run unit tests in Jenkins and capture the results.

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.

How to structure your Git repository for DevOps automation

Learn how to structure your Git repositories to store your scripts, infrastructure as code configuration files, application configuration files, docs and more.

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.

Change Advisory Boards Don’t Work

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

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.

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

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

Traditional runbooks versus Octopus Runbooks

As part of our series about Runbooks, we look at how Octopus Runbooks solves the problems with traditional runbooks.

Octopus React UI Permissions

Inside look into the React UI permissions

Multi-tenant deployments: Origins

Multi-tenant deployments have finally arrived! This post takes a look back on why the roadmap for the new feature took such a detour but how it has become ultimately shaped by our users.

Raising the minimum requirements for hosting and using Octopus Server

In 2020, we will raise the minimum requirements for hosting and using Octopus Server.

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.

In Octopus 3.0, we're switching from RavenDB to SQL Server

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.

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Autoscaling Octopus workers using Kubernetes

Learn about our new worker that makes it easier to scale your deployment infrastructure. The worker runs on Kubernetes but helps with any deployment tasks to any target.

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.

Documentation

Database backups and rollbacks

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

PCI compliance and Octopus Deploy

Using Octopus Deploy in PCI compliant environments.

SHA1 "Shattered" collision and Octopus Deploy

How the SHA1 "Shattered" Collision impacts Octopus Deploy

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