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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.

Deploying to Rancher with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy to a Kubernetes cluster managed by Rancher.

Execution containers for workers: Extending the Octopus worker-tools Docker image

Unsure what image to use with the Execution containers for workers feature in Octopus? This post covers what the octopus/worker-tools image is, how to extend it, and why you might create your own image entirely.

Deploying Certificates to Tomcat

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

Octopus.Client goes Open Source

Octopus.Client and Sampler are now Open Source and versioned using SemVer. Octopus.Client and Octo.exe are now .NET Core and have a Async API.

Deploying Tomcat apps via the manager

Learn how to deploy web applications to Tomcat via the manager

Deploying a Vault to WildFly

Learn how to deploy a vault from Octopus to WildFly to secure passwords in configuration files

Using Jenkins Pipelines with Octopus

Learn how to trigger Octopus deployments with Jenkins Pipelines

Octopus 2.0 Progress Update

Right now we're tidying up a few bugs to do a final hands-on preview release. Then we'll move to finishing any items needed for a private beta (beta 1)

Introducing the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Octopus 2020.3 introduces the Octopus Server Linux Docker image

Creating EC2 instance in AWS with CloudFormation

Learn how to create Windows and Linux EC2 instances in AWS with example CloudFormation templates

Installing Tentacles with DSC in AWS CloudFormation templates

Learn how to configure a target work Worker Tentacle when creating a new EC2 instance with CloudFormation.

Octopus 2020.3: Runbooks++, Jenkins Pipelines, and Octopus Linux Docker image

Octopus 2020.3 includes our improve Runbooks support, Jenkins Pipelines, our streamlined process editor, and early access to our Octopus Linux Docker image.

Variable Editor Redesign - RFC

Updates to the variable editor ...

Documentation

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.

Scheduled runbook triggers

Scheduled runbook triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your runbook that will cause an automatic runbook run to environments of your choosing.

Restore SQL database

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

Restore SQL database to another environment

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

Updating Windows

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

Hardening Apache

With Octopus Deploy you can harden Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Restarting a Tomcat Web application

With Octopus Deploy you can restart a Tomcat web application as part of a routine operations task.

Create MySQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can create a MySQL database with a Runbook.

Provision an Azure App Service

Provision an Azure App Service using a runbook

Restart server

With Octopus Deploy you can restart a server with a runbook.

Hardening Windows

With Octopus Deploy you can harden your Windows machines with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Create PaaS MySQL database server

With Octopus Deploy you can create a MySQL PaaS database server with a runbook.

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