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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.

Write your own PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) module

How to write your own PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) module

Getting started with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

How to get started using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Deploying PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) like an App with Octopus Deploy

Use Octopus Deploy custom step templates and configuration data files (DSC configuration) to deploy your Infrastructure as Code using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).

Configuration Management with Octopus and PowerShell DSC

This post demonstrates how to use PowerShell DSC with Octopus Deploy, including using Octopus as an alternative to the DSC pull server,

New in Azure DevOps for Octopus Deploy v6

Find out what's new in v6 of the Octopus Azure DevOps plugin and why we made the changes.

Inside DevOps with Jason Dunnivant from Olo

A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our first post features Jason Dunnivant, Release Engineer at Olo.

Octopus Cloud connectivity disruption - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the Octopus Cloud network connectivity disruption from January 25, 2023.

Bootstrap Tentacle installation with Powershell DSC

Install and configure Tentacles using the power of Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Integrating OAuth with Kubernetes

Integrating Google OAuth into a Kubernetes cluster.

Creating an EKS cluster with eksctl

Creating EKS clusters is now a trivial task with eksctl. In this post, we’ll learn how to create a cluster and integrate it with Octopus.

Documentation

Automating Octopus installation

Information on how to install and configure an Octopus Server in a fully automated way from the command line.

Automating Tentacle installation

Information on how to install and configure an Octopus Tentacle in a fully automated way from the command line.

Azure virtual machines

The Azure VM Tentacle extension makes it easy to automatically download, install and register a Tentacle with your Octopus Server.

Tentacle VM extension configuration structure

Detailed file format information for the configuration files required for the Azure Tentacle VM Extension

Diagnosing Tentacle VM extension issues

How to diagnose and resolve installation issues with the Tentacle VM Extension

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via an ARM template

How to install the Tentacle VM extension using an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template

Installing the Tentacle via DSC in an ARM template

How to install the Tentacle using Desired State configuration (DSC) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via PowerShell

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the PowerShell

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure CLI

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure Portal

How to install a Tentacle using the Azure VM Extension via the new Azure Portal

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the classic Azure Portal

How to install a Tentacle using the Azure VM extension via the classic Azure Portal

Clustered Listening Tentacles

Configuring the Octopus Tentacle in an active/passive cluster.

Polling Tentacles over WebSockets

Octopus Polling Tentacles open a connection to the Octopus Server over WebSockets to ask what to do.

Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing the latest version of Tentacle.

Legacy Tentacle installation requirements

Software and hardware requirements for installing legacy versions of Tentacles.

Running Tentacle under a specific user account

Information on how to run Tentacle under a specific user account.

Permissions required for the Tentacle Windows Service

Everything you need to know about the permissions your Tentacles need.

octopus project variables exclude

Exclude a variable set from a project

octopus project variables include

Include a variable set in a project

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