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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.

Octopus Deploy + TeamCity Webinar - Feb 12

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.

DDD Brisbane 2013

Ask Octopus Episodes 40-42 - Data Migration, installing the Linux Tentacle & connecting on-premise servers to Octopus Cloud.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have received and how we went about solving them.

March 2015 Community Roundup

KCDC and NDC 2013: Jeff French on TeamCity and Octopus Deploy

Jeff French has a great presentation coming up on continuous delivery of complex applications with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, which he'll be doing at the KCDC and NDC 2013.

Mapping manual deployments with Octopus Deploy

Find out how to map your manual deployments to create a template that helps you start your automation journey.

April 2015 Community Roundup

February Community Roundup

Ask Octopus Episode 7 - Delta Compression, Common Performance Issues, Deploy Production to UAT

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 8 - Script Console, Disable Child Projects, Performance Part II

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 9 - Composite Step Templates, Maintenance Process and Environment Templates

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 10 - Subscriptions, System Security and Redeploy Failed Releases

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 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.

How to use PowerShell script modules... on Linux

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

Azure Cloud Deployments with Octopus

Kicking off our Azure Cloud Deployments with Octopus blog series looking at the breadth of options currently available.

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instance

Octopus Deploy vs. Puppet/Chef

What's the difference between Octopus and Puppet/Chef?

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

Halibut: a secure communication stack for .NET/Mono

A code project article written recently about Halibut, which is a lightweight secure alternative to WCF, written for .NET/Mono

ASP.NET Core 1 build & deployment pipelines with TeamCity and Octopus

ASP.NET Core 1 and the dotnet CLI makes publishing applications a first-class feature of the platform. This post explains how to hook it into your build & deployment pipeline.

Octopus 1.4 with updating variables, cloning projects and other fixes

Octopus 1.4 includes the ability to update release variables, clone projects and disabling machines.

RFC: Improving the Create Release screen

A mockup of a new design for the create release screen

Webinar, 28th March: What's new in Octopus 1.5

I'll be hosting a webinar to demonstrate the new features in Octopus 1.5: Azure deployments, FTP/FTPS, ScriptCS and more

Documentation

Retention policies

Retention policies allow you to specify the releases, packages and files you want to keep as well as the ones you want cleaned up.

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Azure Cloud Service targets

Azure Cloud Service deployment targets allow you to reference existing classic Cloud Services in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

SQL Server deployments

Automating deployments to SQL Server

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