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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 Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

Using Cake’s C# makefiles to script your application build process.

GitHub Feeds

GitHub Feeds now allow deployments from source code without having to explicitly build packages

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Selenium series: Travis CI

In this post, we learn how to build and test our project with Travis CI

Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI

Enable tab completion for the Octopus CLI today! We'll also dive into how shell completion works in some popular shell environments.

How to design an automated database deployment process

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

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Database deployment automation using state-based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Setting up automated database deployments with state-based Redgate SQL change automation.

Modern rollback strategies

Bob walks you through 3 modern rollback strategies: the 10-minute recovery, 3-minute recovery, and immediate rollback strategy.

Re-thinking feature branch deployments

Feature branches should be tested prior to merging into master. All too often, companies have a single static test environment.

Database Feature Branch Deployments

Standing up a sandbox for feature branches is a common scenario. This article aims to solve that for databases.

SQL Server and PowerShell made easier with dbatools: Practical Examples

A comparison between the SqlServer and dbatools PowerShell modules

Webinar: Continuous Delivery with Team Build and Octopus Deploy

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

Octopus Deploy 3.5: Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Introducing Octopus Deploy 3.5, with new features including Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Deploying to Wildfly from Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to Wildfly hosted on a Linux server with Octopus Deploy

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

Self-hosted Octopus in a Cloud VM vs. Octopus Cloud

Information to consider when deciding on the right Octopus Deploy installation to use in the cloud.

Deploying Spring Boot Applications as Windows Services

Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot application as a Windows service with Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy Java Support RFC

Our plans to support Java as a first class citizen in Octopus Deploy

Introducing the Beta Migration Tool

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Documentation

Upgrading host OS or .NET

A how-to guide on how to upgrade the host OS or .NET with Octopus Deploy.

How High Availability Works

Understanding the inner workings on how high availability works in Octopus Deploy.

Expose the Octopus Web Portal over HTTPS

How to expose the Octopus Web Portal securely over HTTPS.

Upgrading from Octopus 4.x / 2018.x to latest version

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 4.x or 2018.x to the latest version

Upgrading from Octopus 3.x to the latest version

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus Deploy 3.x to the latest version

GitHub Organizations

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

Jenkins Pipeline projects

Managing Octopus steps in a Jenkins pipeline project.

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