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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.

Your guide to SHIPPED23 - Wednesday, November 15

SHIPPED23 is an all-day virtual event by Octopus Deploy on November 15, 2023. Join us for discussions about managing complex hybrid deployments at scale.

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.

Dynamically setting TeamCity version numbers based on the current branch

When you are using TeamCity to build a project with multiple branches, it's desirable to have different build numbers depending on the branch. This post explains how to dynamically set the TC build number depending on the current branch.

Introducing Step Retries

Learn about our new Step Retries feature to combat transient connectivity issues and improve deployment success rates.

Octostache Update - JSON, Indexing, Formatting and Dates

New changes required to Octostache to support Docker provided an opportunity to provide some additionally requested features

Multi-tenancy release management with Octopus Deploy

How to use the new Deploy Child Octopus Deploy Project step template for multi-tenancy releases.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

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

In Octopus 3.0, we're switching from RavenDB to SQL Server

The new DevOps performance clusters

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

Continuous Delivery with Octopus and Kubernetes

This training series provides a step by step walk-through building multi-environment deployments with Octopus and Kubernetes.

Octopus Deploy's response to Log4j

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

Breaking up monolithic deployments

Learn how to break up a large process into smaller deployable components

Blue/green deployments

Watch the blue/green deployment strategy, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Getting started with Docker

This post opens our Kubernetes training series. First, learn how to install Docker on your local workstation.

Installing a development Kubernetes cluster

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn to to install a local development Kubernetes cluster with kind.

Creating Docker containers

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn how to create a Docker image and run it as a container.

ConfigMaps and Secrets

Learn how to configure applications with ConfigMaps and Secrets, as part of our Kubernetes training series

ConfigMaps and Secrets demo

Watch as applications are deployed to a cluster configured with either a ConfigMap or Secret, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Deploying to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Kubernetes cluster as an Octopus target and deploy applications to it, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Multi-environment deployments

Learn how to progress deployments to multiple environments as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Installing a dashboard

Learn how to install helm and then use it to install a dashboard to monitor the cluster, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Observing deployment strategies

Watch in realtime as pods are redeployed with different deployment strategies, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Role Based Access Control

Learn the Kubernetes resources used to implement RBAC, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Ingress and Ingress Controllers

Learn about Ingress resources and Ingress Controllers, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Ingress and Ingress Controllers demo

Learn how to deploy an Ingress Controller and expose services via Ingress resources, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

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 are there so many definitions of lead time?

Find out why there are multiple definitions of lead time and how you can use them to improve software delivery.

Documentation

Node

Configure settings related to this Octopus Server node

First Runbook Run

This section will walk you through how to configure your first runbook run in Octopus Deploy.

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