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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.

Using the HTTPd Docker image

A detailed look at how to use the HTTPd web server with Docker.

Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part one

Learn how to define infrastructure as code with Pulumi.

The ultimate guide to Tomcat deployments

Learn how to create a secure, highly available, load-balanced Tomcat cluster with zero downtime deployments.

Using Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

This post shows you how to use Operations Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.

Cloud-native database deployment authentication

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

Deploy Google's Online Boutique microservice stack in Octopus

Learn how to import an existing microservice application stack into Octopus, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment

Find out why you should track vulnerabilities after deployment, plus the ways how.

What is Everything as Code?

This post discusses the shift to Everything as Code. We look at the 2 main EaC applications, Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code, along with other IT applications and benefits.

Taming the backlog with UserVoice

Using the Alpine Docker image

A detailed look at how to use the Alpine Docker image

What are SBOMs?

Find out what SBOMs are, learn about the US government's Executive Order, and how Octopus can help with your SBOMs.

Octopus 2022 Q3: Safe, reliable, and auditable pipelines

Octopus 2022 Q3 is now available.

New in GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

We updated our GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy with new features and to improve usability. Learn more.

Jira Service Management integration for Octopus Deploy: early access preview

The Octopus Deploy integration for Jira Service Management is now available as an early access preview.

The different types of software tests

Learn why testing is important, read about manual and automated testing, and functional and non-functional testing with examples.

Faster deployments with the Executions API

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

Shaping Config as Code for variables

Learn how customer feedback informed updates to Configuration as Code.

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.

Documentation

Coordinating multiple projects

Script examples for working with data from multiple projects.

Jira Service Management Integration

Octopus Deploy can integrate with your Jira Service Management instance for deployment control using Change Requests/Issues

Deprecations

Upcoming and past deprecations by version for Octopus Server

Converting projects to Git

Converting a project to leverage the configuration as a code feature.

Migrating variables to Git

Variables needs to be manually migrated to Git for existing projects

Insights

Insights gives you better visibility into your company's DevOps performance.

CSV download

Download your data as a CSV

Metrics

DORA Metrics

Project Insights

Project level insights are available as a new tab in every project so you can understand the performance of your projects across channels, environments, and tenants.

Space Level Insights

Space level insights

Trend indicators

Insights helps spot performance trends

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