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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 HashiCorp Vault with Octopus

Introducing step templates that allow secrets stored in HashiCorp Vault to be used in deployments or runbooks.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Variable Editor Redesign

The variable editor has been revamped for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Debugging "element does not exist in the collection properties" for SSIS

Learn about issues with package parameters when automating SSIS deployments, and how to avoid an error using different versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server.

Automatically provisioning Amazon EC2 instances with Tentacle installed

A short code snippet that helps you to create EC2 instances with the Octopus Deploy Tentacle agent installed and registered, ready for deployment.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Infrastructure Redesign

The environments are has been revamped into a new Infrastructure area for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

Octopus 2021 Q2: Migrate to the cloud with Octopus Deploy

Octopus 2021 Q2: Export/Import Projects EAP, Azure Zip Deploy, GitHub Actions, Terraform integration and Octopus Cloud improvements.

New Home for Octopus Documentation

After our documentation hosting provider went under, we decided to change where we host our docs.

Exporting and importing projects between spaces

In Octopus 2021.1 we've introduced a new feature to export and import projects.

Installing Tomcat From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of Tomcat.

Announcing GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

You can now integrate your GitHub builds with deployments in Octopus Deploy thanks to our GitHub Actions.

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

Installing WildFly From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of WildFly.

Heartbleed and Octopus Deploy

Octopus uses SSL libraries in Windows, and so isn't vulnerable to the Hearbleed bug

Improved Azure App Service deployments

Learn about the improved Azure App Service deployment step included in Octopus 2021.1.

Migrating an ASP.NET web app from IIS on-premises to an Azure App Service

Learn how to migrate an ASP.NET web app from hosting it on-premises to an Azure App Service in the Cloud.

Request for Comments - ECS integration with Octopus

We're proposing new integrations with ECS in Octopus, and want your feedback.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - History

The history of how Octopus 4.0 was born.

Using classes in custom step templates

Learn how to implement a class in a custom step template.
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Documentation

Bulk Operations

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to perform a variety of bulk operations using the Octopus Deploy API.

Bulk add a project to a list of tenants

An example script that will add a project to a lot of tenants at once.

Reports

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to generate comma separated reports using the Octopus Deploy API.

Project permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to specific projects.

Export projects

An example script that will export projects that can be imported into a different space on the same, or different Octopus instance.

Import projects

An example script that will import projects from a previously executed export task from another space on an Octopus instance.

Rerun all canceled deployments and runbook runs after node shutdown.

An example script that determine which deployments and runbook runs were canceled because of a node shutdown and resubmit them.

Enable/disable project

An example script that enables or disables a project in Octopus.

Create a Google Cloud account

An example script to create a Google Cloud (GCP) account in Octopus.

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