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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.

Cloud-native database deployment authentication

Our most popular database deployment templates have been updated with cloud-native authentication.

Using classes in custom step templates

Learn how to implement a class in a custom step template.

Deploy SQL Server DACPAC with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy SQL Server DACPAC using Octopus Deploy.

Importing and deploying your first Octopus project

Import your first project in Octopus Deploy and deploy a tutorial to an Azure web application for your organization.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Configuration

Server configuration is getting a whole lot easier, and more visual.

Configuring Jenkins in Azure and deploying with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Jenkins instance in Azure and deploy with Octopus.

Providing environment specific configuration for JavaScript projects

Whether it's a React, Angular, or NodeJS application, you often need configuration to be supplied that differs from one environment to the next. The safest way to accomplish this is to make use of your deployment tooling.

Octopus Deploy's Kubernetes YAML generator

Learn how to use our Kubernetes YAML generator, and deploy a Kubernetes cluster.

Deploying to Azure with GitHub Actions and Octopus

Learn how to deploy an Azure web application with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy.

Octopus 2022 Q2: Containerize and modernize your CI/CD pipeline

Octopus 2022 Q2 with support for cloud-native containers and serverless is now available. Plus automatic cloud target discovery and ServiceNow integration (early access).

Ask Octopus Episode 11 - Automatically Cancel Tasks, Progression Prevention and Compliance

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

A guest post from Daniel Nolan of ReadyRoll on Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

Automation with Octopus.Client

One of the benefits of being API first is that you can do anything that the Octopus UI does via web requests. We have a handy library called Octopus.Client that wraps the API and makes it easy to perform operations on your Octopus Deploy Server. This article will focus on some common operations using PowerShell.

Introducing our second release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS

Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS is the second release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

Tracking your work from code to deployment

A look at the new custom metadata capabilities in Octopus.

Automatic release notes and work item tracking - Octopus Deploy 2019.4

Octopus 2019.4 introduces automatic release notes generation and rich build and work item tracking.

Better release notes with templates and automatic generation

A look at release notes templates and automatic release notes generation in Octopus.

Ask Octopus Episode 12 - Environment Approval Gates, Worker Pools Per Environment

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Ask Octopus Episode 13-15 - Blue/Green Deployments, HA Cluster configuration & Exposing links in deployment logs

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Documentation

Connecting securely with Azure Active Directory

Octopus Deploy can help you connect securely to Service Fabric clusters using Azure Active Directory authentication.

Azure Active Directory authentication

Octopus Deploy can use Azure AD authentication to identify users.

Authentication provider compatibility

Compatibility of authentication providers differ between Octopus Server and Octopus Cloud.

SQL Server Database

Information about using SQL Server Database with Octopus Deploy.

List users

An example script to list all users in an Octopus instance.

Octopus ID authentication

Octopus Deploy can use Octopus accounts to identify users.

Create Azure Service Fabric target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Service Fabric target

Azure

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy software to your Windows servers, Linux servers, or cloud regions.

Kubernetes cluster

How to configure a Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus

Built-in Octopus repository

Using the Octopus built-in repository.

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