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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.

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.

Octopus plugin for Jenkins: Painless Jenkins integration

Octopus is launching our official Octopus Deploy plugin for Jenkins automation server, making it painless to integrate your Jenkins builds with Octopus deployments.

Deploying a Spring Boot web app - Will it Deploy? Episode 2

We try to automate the deployment of a Spring Boot web app AWS Elastic Beanstalk with infrastructure provisioning and zero production downtime.

Kubernetes deployments made easy - Octopus Deploy 2018.9

Kubernetes deployments made easy! Octopus 2018.9 includes our first-class support for Kubernetes Deployments including infrastructure support for Kubenetes Clusters and rich deployment steps to simplify your deployment process.

Octopus 2020.1: Dark mode and better Linux support

Octopus 2020.1 includes dark mode support, AWS and Azure built-in steps are now cross-platform, the Octopus CLI is now available via Homebrew, Yum, and APT and enviroment specific worker pools.

Installing Minikube on Windows

Learn how to get a test Kubernetes environment on Windows with Minikube

Convert an existing application to use rolling deployments

Learn how to convert an existing application to use the rolling deployments deployment pattern in Octopus with child steps.

Farmer: Simpler ARM deployments with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Farmer to create and deploy ARM templates with Octopus Deploy

How has deployment automation benefited you?

Changes to the TFS/VSTS Extension

An update on the changes in the TFS and VSTS extension for build and release tasks

Deploying Certificates to WildFly

Learn how to deploy certificates from Octopus to WildFly to enable HTTPS support

Fast track code promotion in your CI/CD pipeline

Learn how to use pre-approved deployment pipelines to rapidly promote code into production

Documentation

Manual intervention and approval step

Manual intervention and approvals allow a human to review, approve, or sign off on deployments.

Runbooks

With Octopus runbook automation you can automate routine or emergency operations-centric processes, for instance, disaster recovery and database backups.

Runbooks examples

Examples of using Runbooks to streamline and automate your routine and emergency operations tasks using Octopus Deploy.

Azure

Octopus Deploy can help you automate the provisioning of infrastructure in Azure using runbooks.

Deploy an Azure Resource Manager template

Deploy an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.

Database examples

Examples of using Runbooks to help automate database maintenance.

Backup SQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can backup a MSSQL database with a Runbook.

Emergency operations

This section includes examples of how to use runbooks to help automate disaster recovery operations.

Manually failover DNS

With Octopus Deploy you can manually failover DNS with a Runbook.

Automatically failover DNS with monitoring

With Octopus Deploy you can monitor your application and failover DNS with a runbook.

Routine operations

Octopus Deploy allows you to create and run runbooks for routine operations tasks, which don't happen very frequently.

Install software with Chocolatey

Create runbooks to install software with Chocolatey as part of a routine operations task.

Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

With Octopus Deploy you can install Tomcat on Ubuntu with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Updating Linux

With Octopus Deploy you can update and patch Linux machines with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Runbooks permissions

Permissions are available to help you manage access to Runbooks.

Runbooks publishing

Publishing makes a runbook available to scheduled triggers and consumers.

Runbooks vs Deployments

Describing the differences between a deployment and a runbook.

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