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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.

Faster deployments with the Executions API

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

The new DevOps performance clusters

Explains the changes and additions to performance clusters in The State of DevOps Report 2022.

Octopus enterprise deployment patterns

Learn the common deployment strategies enterprise teams can adopt with Octopus.

Dropping support for Windows Server 2003 machines

Octopus Deploy will drop support for targets and Workers running Windows Server 2003 from the 2024.1 release.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

Find out about the latest software delivery performance clusters in the State of DevOps Report.

Octopus Deploy's response to Log4j

Learn how Octopus Deploy responded to the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).

Documentation

Telemetry

Telemetry from Octopus Server and what is included

Authentication provider compatibility

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

Octopus versioning scheme

Details of the versioning scheme used by Docker feeds

System variables

System variables are variables provided by Octopus that can be used in your deployments.

Variable filters

Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.

Compatibility

Backward compatibility between Octopus Server and related components

Default permissions for built-in user roles

A listing of the default permissions for each of the built-in user roles.

Jenkins Pipeline projects

Managing Octopus steps in a Jenkins pipeline project.

Restore SQL database to another environment

With Octopus Deploy you can restore a MSSQL database to another environment with a runbook.

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Create Kubernetes Target Command

Cmdlet for creating a Kubernetes target

Subscriptions

Subscriptions allow you to subscribe to events that are happening within Octopus, so you can be notified when events have occurred and react accordingly.

API

The Insights API

Credits

Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.

CSV download

Download your data as a CSV

Octopus Tentacle in a Container

An Octopus Tentacle instance can be run directly from within a container.

Managing Octopus subscriptions

Control Center is where you manage your Octopus subscriptions and their associated user access.

Running Tentacle under a specific user account

Information on how to run Tentacle under a specific user account.

Maven feeds

Configuring Maven repositories as Octopus Feeds

Infrastructure

The infrastructure tab in the Octopus Web Portal is where you manage your environments, deployment targets, and other infrastructure.

Cloud Target Discovery

Cloud resources can be discovered and registered as deployment targets by Octopus

Disaster recovery

How to work with your data and disaster recovery in an Octopus Cloud instance.

ServiceNow Integration

Octopus Deploy can integrate with your ServiceNow instance for deployment control using Change Request approvals

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