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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.

Booting Tomcat in Docker with the manager app

Learn how to boot a standard Tomcat Docker image with the manager app exposed and ready to accept deployments

How to use PowerShell script modules... on Linux

Learn how to use your library of PowerShell script modules on Linux

Selenium series: Launching Cucumber tests

In this post, we launch a Cucumber test inside a Lambda

Maven repositories explained

Learn how Maven repositories are structured and how to access artifacts stored in them.

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.

CloudFormation, WildFly and Deploying Maven Artifacts

Take a look at how you can tie together a number of the new features from recent releases to deploy Java apps to the cloud.

Verifying backups with Runbooks

Learn how to automate the process of verifying your backups using a custom runbook.

Creating an EC2 Octopus Worker with CloudFormation

Learn how to deploy an EC2 configured as an Octopus Worker via a CloudFormation template.

Managing Ansible Deployments with Octopus

Learn how to deploy Ansible scripts from Octopus

How to install a Jenkins instance with Helm

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via Helm.

Java CI/CD: From release management to operations

In this post, we create example runbook to implement operations tasks.

Using the WildFly CLI

Learn how to use the WildFly CLI to query and configure a WildFly application server.

Creating workers with the Tentacle Docker image

Learn how to use the Tentacle Docker image to create workers using Azure container services

Chaos engineering and runbooks

Learn how runbooks can enrich your deployments with the Chaos Toolkit.

Creating a custom Docker registry

Learn how to create a bare bones Docker registry with C Sharp.

Documentation

Extract

Extracts a NuGet package

Use IIS as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up IIS 7 (or later) as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Pack

Creates a package (.nupkg or .zip) from files on disk, without needing a .nuspec or .csproj

Import certificate

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to replace the certificate that Tentacle uses to authenticate itself.

Show thumbprint

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to show the thumbprint of the Tentacle's certificate.

New certificate

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to create and install a new certificate for this Tentacle.

Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

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

How to regenerate certificates with Octopus Server and Tentacle

How to regenerate the certificates used for communication between Octopus Server and its Tentacles.

Java applications

Deploy to WildFly, Red Hat JBoss EAP and Tomcat using Octopus Deploy

Dump deployments

Writes deployments to an XML file that can be imported in Excel.

Import certificates into WildFly and JBoss EAP

Configure WildFly or JBoss EAP with a certificate managed by Octopus.

Push

Pushes a package (.nupkg, .zip, .tar.gz, etc.) package to the built-in NuGet repository in an Octopus Server.

Bamboo

Octopus Deploy and Bamboo can work together to make automated, continuous delivery easy.

Java error messages and troubleshooting

Java deployment steps include a number of unique error codes that may be displayed in the output if there was an error

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