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Octopus Starter edition: Free for small teams

Octopus Deploy: Starter is a new edition of Octopus Deploy. It allows small teams to run a self-hosted Octopus Server and deploy up to 10 targets, all for free.

Octopus 2.0: Health checks will now check for free disk space

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Festive Tech Calendar - Octopus hackathon

Get involved with the Octopus Deploy hackathon and you could win one of three Octopus swag bundles.

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

Octopus June Release 2018.6

Octopus 2018.6 is building the foundation for some excellent new features coming soon!

5 Remote Desktop Alternatives

Five alternative Remote Desktop tools

An introduction to build servers and Continuous Integration

This post opens our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, with an overview on the benefits of build servers, particularly Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

How GitHub Actions is different to traditional build servers

We explore how GitHub Actions, providing Continuous Integration as a Service, is different to traditional build servers.

Difference between docker.io, docker-cd, and Docker Desktop

Learn which version of Docker to install for your operating system.

Octopus Cloud FAQs

Octopus Cloud: all your questions answered!

How to design an automated database deployment process

This article walks you through designing your ideal automated database deployment process.

Octostats - Usage and Adoption of Octopus Deploy

A peek into the growth of Octopus, and how people are using it in the real world.

Whitepaper: Benefits of Deployment Automation

Opsera integration with Octopus

We've partnered with Opsera to provide integration with Octopus Deploy. You can integrate Octopus Deploy with the 95+ platforms that Opsera supports. Find out more.

Octopus plugin for Jira - Better visibility for your software pipeline

Our new Octopus Deploy plugin for Jira makes it easy to plan, track and ship software with better end-to-end visibility of your software pipeline.

Octopus Deploy + TeamCity Webinar - Feb 12

Channels Walkthrough

Supporting advanced deployment scenarios with Octopus Deploy 3.2 and Channels

Thoughts from my User Experience Journey

Thoughts and takeaways from my recent journey with the Onboarding team, diving further into user-experience.

Octopus Deploy in the Azure Marketplace

Octopus Deploy is now available in the Azure Marketplace

The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

Structured Logging with Seq

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

Building the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)

Depending on your Linux distro, you may have to build the APR from scratch to take advantage of the higher performance of the OpenSSL library in Tomcat.

The Octopus Deploy 3.0 time saver: delta compression

Octopus July Release 2018.7

Octopus 2018.7 - Sharing the Workload with Workers!

Documentation

Community edition

Server and Cloud community edition limits

GitHub Organizations

Octopus Deploy houses its source code on GitHub in three organizations.

Octopus database

Octopus uses a Microsoft SQL Server Database to store environments, projects, variables, releases, and deployment history.

.NET deployments

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable, reliable deployments of your .NET applications.

Legacy Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing legacy versions of Tentacles.

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