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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.

Ask Octopus Episode 12 - Environment Approval Gates, Worker Pools Per Environment

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Webinar - The Right Way to Integrate Octopus Deploy with Azure Pipelines

Learn how to create your own end-to-end model for implementing an automated DevOps pipeline.

Deploying containers to AWS Fargate

Learn how to deploy containers in the Elastic Container Registry to Elastic Container Services Fargate

Chicago ALM user group: Automating deployments with Octopus Deploy

Ian Paullin will be talking about Octopus at the Chicago ALM user group on May 21st

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.

Deploying an ASP.NET MVC web app to Azure with AppVeyor and Octopus - Will it Deploy? Episode 6

Deploying an ASP.NET MVC web app to Azure with a cloud-based delivery pipeline using AppVeyor and Octopus - Will it Deploy? Episode 6

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Using the Azure custom script extension for complex installations

A deep dive into the Azure custom script extension for Windows VMs

RFC: X.509 Certificate Management

Request For Comment on proposed X.509 Certificate Management

Execution Containers for Workers

Octopus 2020.2 adds the ability to execute deployment actions inside a container

My First Year Working at Octopus

Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus Deploy

Adding notifications for every production deployment

An introductory guide to using subscriptions with webhooks.

Heartbleed and Octopus Deploy

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

Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET

Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.

The ultimate guide to rolling deployments

What are rolling deployments and why are they useful? This post covers the rolling deployment pattern and practical examples of how to implement it with different tooling.
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Documentation

Scheduled runbook triggers

Scheduled runbook triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your runbook that will cause an automatic runbook run to environments of your choosing.

Scheduled deployment triggers

Automatic deployment triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project that will cause an automatic deployment of a release into an environment.

Providing database performance metrics

How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Certificate variables

Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the value

Delete releases

Deletes a range of releases

Dynamic Worker pools

Dynamic Worker pools are used in our cloud product to dynamically create and assign workers to running tasks. This page describes how dynamic worker pools work.

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