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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.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.

Configuring Octopus Server High Availability using AWS FSx

Learn how to create an Octopus Server High Availability cluster using AWS FSx.

Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

The first step towards safe production releases... safe dev/test deployments.

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

Docker on Windows and Octopus Deploy

ScottGu announced Docker and Microsoft partnership. What does it mean for deployment automation on Windows?

Octopus Starter edition: Free for small teams

Octopus Deploy: Starter is a new edition of Octopus Deploy. It allows small teams to run a self-hosted Octopus Server and deploy up to 10 targets, all for free.

Deploying a JavaScript library project with Octopus

Learn how to handle cache-busting and config of a shared JavaScript library bundle, and make it easy to reference in other Octopus projects.

Octopus Deploy's Kubernetes YAML generator

Learn how to use our Kubernetes YAML generator, and deploy a Kubernetes cluster.

Azure VM extension for Octopus Deploy

Deploy .NET applications directly to Azure VM's using our Tentacle agent extension.

Rollback strategies with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to implement a rollback strategy with Octopus Deploy, without having to use advanced deployment patterns.

Rolling back a Tomcat deployment

Learn how to roll back an application deployed to an Apache Tomcat server.

Rolling back a Kubernetes deployment

Learn how to rollback an application deployed to Kubernetes.

How to export metrics from Windows Kubernetes nodes in AKS

A guide to setting up Prometheus metric exporting from Windows nodes in your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster.

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.

Common deployment patterns and how to use them in Octopus

Deployment patterns are important to any development pipeline. This post looks at some common deployment patterns and explains how to set them up in Octopus.

Invoking an executable from PowerShell with a dynamic number of parameters

Calling an executable from PowerShell is easy - most of the time, you just put an `&` in front. But it gets tricky when you need to pass in a variable length list of parameters. This blog post shows you how.

Using Google Cloud Secret Manager with Octopus

Introducing a new step template that allows secrets stored in Google Cloud Secret Manager to be used in deployments or runbooks.

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

What's new in Octopus Deploy 2.6

Safe schema updates - Near-zero downtime database deployments

This post discusses how we can only deploy often if we can do it without disruption.
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Documentation

Change users AD domain to LDAP

An example script that swaps an Octopus user's Active Directory login record for a matching LDAP one.

Deploy Amazon ECS Service

Deploy a service to an Amazon ECS cluster.

New Octopus Target Command

Function for creating an Octopus target for a step package

Remove Octopus Target Command

Cmdlet for removing an Octopus target

Add Tenants to targets

An example script to associate a list of tenants to one or more deployment targets.

Designing Octopus HA in GCP

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Telemetry

Telemetry from Octopus Server and what is included

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