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Octopus Tentacle on ARM/ARM64

Tentacle now supports ARM/ARM64 hardware

Farmer: Simpler ARM deployments with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Farmer to create and deploy ARM templates with Octopus Deploy

Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Azure Virtual Machine Extension

Announcing the re-release of the Azure Virtual Machine extension to install Tentacle's on your Cloud VMs

Octopus 2021 Q1: Self-host Octopus on Linux

Octopus 2021 Q1: Octopus Server's Linux Docker image is Released to Web (RTW), Tentacle for ARM/ARM64, Global Search and API key management improvements.

Linux worker for PowerShell templates

Using a Linux worker to run Step Templates written in PowerShell.

Removing the Azure VM extension for Tentacle

Find out why the Azure VM extension was deprecated and the recommended way to deploy Tentacle Windows VMs in the future.

What does Microsoft deprecating Azure Service Management APIs mean for Octopus Users?

As Azure begin to deprecate their Azure Service Management APIs, this has knock-on effects for Octopus Users. Although Cloud Service deployments will keep working, Azure Certificate Management Accounts will no longer provide such a rich UX experience.

Managing Dynamic Targets

Walkthrough of managing a QA environment in Azure

Deploy .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus

Learn how to deploy your .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi with Octopus.

Using the Deploy a Bicep template step

Learn how to configure our new Deploy a Bicep template step

Creating workers with the Tentacle Docker image

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

Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster

More lessons learned from experimenting with Raspberry Pi cluster computing.

RFC: Azure Resource Manager support

Request for comments on support for Azure Resource Manager

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app - Will it Deploy? Episode 1

We try to automate the deployment of a ASP.NET core web app to Microsoft's Azure platform with infrastructure provisioning and zero production downtime.

Documentation

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

Azure virtual machines

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

Deploy an Azure Resource Manager template

Deploy an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.

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

Dynamic infrastructure

Octopus resources created in cloud providers can also be modeled in Octopus using service messages and scripts, which form part of dynamic infrastructure.

Linux Tentacle

How to install and configure Octopus Tentacles on Linux Servers in either listening or polling mode.

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

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via PowerShell

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the PowerShell

Running Azure PowerShell

Octopus supports executing PowerShell against Azure and will automatically import the Azure PowerShell modules if they are available.

Azure CLI and PowerShell Scripts

Azure CLI and PowerShell Scripts allow you to manage your Azure resources as part of your deployment process.

Runbooks examples

Examples of using Runbooks to streamline and automate your routine and emergency operations tasks using Octopus Deploy.

Diagnosing Tentacle VM extension issues

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

octopus worker ssh create

Create a SSH worker

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