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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.

RFC - Multitenancy - Take 2

Request for comments on better support for multi-tenant deployments in Octopus Deploy with Tenant as a first-class concept

Octopus 2.0 Guided Failures: RFC

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?

RFC: Only calling PowerShell scripts at the root

An upcoming change to which PowerShell scripts to invoke

Retention policies - RFC

Manual Deployments - RFC

RFC: Branching

RFC: Cloud Regions

Request For Comment on proposed Cloud Regions feature

RFC: Improving the deployment process

Proposed changes to better support using Octopus to deploy in distributed environments.

Octopus Deploy 2.0 API changes - RFC

For Octopus Deploy 2.0 we'll be making some improvements to the HTTP API, as well as documenting it on GitHub.

RFC: Azure Resource Manager support

Request for comments on support for Azure Resource Manager

RFC - Cloud and Infrastructure Automation Support

RFC: Remote delta compression in Octopus

We're thinking of implementing remote delta compression in Octopus to reduce the bandwidth used during deployments

RFC: Multitenancy

Request for comments on better support for multi-tenant deployments in Octopus Deploy

RFC: Improving the Create Release screen

A mockup of a new design for the create release screen

RFC: Removing snapshots

Snapshots have been a feature of Octopus since 2012, and they help to ensure that deployment processes are consistent for a given release. In 2015 we added Channels, which appears to make snapshots obsolete. We're considering removing snapshots in 3.4.

RFC: X.509 Certificate Management

Request For Comment on proposed X.509 Certificate Management

RFC: Linux Deployments

RFC: Lifecycles

Lifecycles enable automation and rules around promotion

Deployment targets in Octopus 3.0 (RFC)

Listening and Polling Tentacles, SSH, Azure Websites, Azure Cloud Services, WebDeploy, offline drops and more.

RFC: Composite Step Templates

Combine multiple step templates together into a single importable block

RFC: Azure Service Fabric support

This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus Deploy

Octopus 2.0 Task Output: RFC

The tasks screen will get an update in Octopus 2.0. Here are some mockups.

RFC: Azure and FTP steps

Looking for comments on two features we're currently building: Azure and FTP support

RFC: Octopus Reactions - Integration toolkit

A proposal for a feature we're calling Reactions. A set of tools to enable event based integration with a wide range of third party products. We'd love you to have your say!

Octopus Deploy Java Support RFC

Our plans to support Java as a first class citizen in Octopus Deploy

Remote Release Promotions RFC

We are designing a new feature to allow promoting Releases between different Octopus Servers (Spaces). You may want to do this for for security, geographic, or other reasons. This is a request-for-comments.

Kubernetes RFC

We are designing Kubernetes support for Octopus, and we would love your input.

Octopus 3.0: Migrator RFC

In Octopus 3.0 we're adding a data migration tool. This post explains some of the scenarios where we think it will be useful.

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