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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.

Deprecating the Octo CLI

Learn why Octopus is dropping support for the Octo CLI and what's next.

Maintaining your own version of the Azure CLI

Learn how to manage your own version of the Azure CLI and why we no longer support tooling.

Building the Octopus CLI vNext

Learn about our plans to build the next version of the Octopus CLI.

Octopus Pipe for Bitbucket: octopus-cli-run

Learn how to integrate Octopus and BitBucket with our new experimental BitBucket Pipe called octopus-cli-run.

Run the AWS CLI in Octopus Deploy

Learn how to run AWS CLI commands inside Octopus Deploy.

Configuring WildFly via XML Templates or CLI Scripts

Configuring a WildFly server can be done either by editing the XML files directly, or by running CLI script. But which is the best choice?

Using the WildFly CLI

Learn how to use the WildFly CLI to query and configure a WildFly application server.

Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI

Enable tab completion for the Octopus CLI today! We'll also dive into how shell completion works in some popular shell environments.

New in Azure DevOps for Octopus Deploy v6

Find out what's new in v6 of the Octopus Azure DevOps plugin and why we made the changes.

Faster deployments with the Executions API

The Executions API is a new set of endpoints that dramatically improves the performance of operations.

New in GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v3

We shipped the third version of GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy with new features. Learn how the new actions improve your deployment experience.

Using Docker as a package manager

This post demonstrates how Docker is a convenient solution for downloading and running many CLI tools.

Managing AWS costs with Instance Scheduler

Learn how to deploy and configure the Instance Scheduler to shutdown unused AWS resources.

Installing Jenkins From Scratch

Learn how to setup a basic Jenkins instance on Ubuntu.

Announcing GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

You can now integrate your GitHub builds with deployments in Octopus Deploy thanks to our GitHub Actions.

Documentation

CLI

The all-new Octopus CLI

Installing the Octopus CLI as a capability

This guide covers how to add the Octopus CLI as a capability to your Azure DevOps custom build agents.

The Octopus Command Line (CLI)

The Octopus CLI (octo) is the Octopus command line tool that builds on top of the Octopus REST API.

Octopus CLI Global Tool

Octopus CLI installation

Configuring the version of the Azure CLI

A version of Azure CLI is bundled with Octopus Deploy and it's possible to configure which version you wish to use in your deployments.

AWS CLI and PowerShell scripts

AWS CLI and PowerShell Scripts allow you to manage your AWS resources as part of your deployment process.

Azure CLI and PowerShell Scripts

Azure CLI and PowerShell Scripts allow you to manage your Azure resources as part of your deployment process.

Create packages with the Octopus CLI

Using the Octopus CLI (octo) command line tool to create packages for deployment.

Google cloud CLI scripts

Google cloud CLI Scripts allow you to manage your Google cloud resources as part of your deployment process.

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure CLI

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)

octopus

Octopus Deploy CLI

octopus config

Manage CLI configuration

octopus config get

Gets the value of config key for Octopus CLI

octopus config set

Set will write the value for given key to Octopus CLI config file

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