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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.

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.

Application Server vs UberJAR

A high level look at the differences between WildFly and WildFly Swarm.

Using DbUp and Octopus workers for database deployment automation

Using DbUp and Octopus workers for database deployment automation.

Using DbUp and workers to automate database deployments

Using DbUp and workers to automate database deployments

Ask Octopus Episode 7 - Delta Compression, Common Performance Issues, Deploy Production to UAT

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 8 - Script Console, Disable Child Projects, Performance Part II

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 9 - Composite Step Templates, Maintenance Process and Environment Templates

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.

Automatic approvals for your database deployment automation

In this post, we will examine some techniques on how to auto approve database changes to stop overwhelming your DBAs.

Ask Octopus Episode 10 - Subscriptions, System Security and Redeploy Failed Releases

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 11 - Automatically Cancel Tasks, Progression Prevention and Compliance

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.

Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

A guest post from Daniel Nolan of ReadyRoll on Deploying Database Configuration Tables with Octopus Deploy and ReadyRoll

Automation with Octopus.Client

One of the benefits of being API first is that you can do anything that the Octopus UI does via web requests. We have a handy library called Octopus.Client that wraps the API and makes it easy to perform operations on your Octopus Deploy Server. This article will focus on some common operations using PowerShell.

Introducing our second release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS

Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS is the second release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

Tracking your work from code to deployment

A look at the new custom metadata capabilities in Octopus.

Automatic release notes and work item tracking - Octopus Deploy 2019.4

Octopus 2019.4 introduces automatic release notes generation and rich build and work item tracking.

Better release notes with templates and automatic generation

A look at release notes templates and automatic release notes generation in Octopus.

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.

Ask Octopus Episode 13-15 - Blue/Green Deployments, HA Cluster configuration & Exposing links in deployment logs

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.

Leveraging Multi-Tenancy to create team and developer sandboxes

The software we write often has dependencies on other team's applications. Learn how you can use the multi-tenancy feature in Octopus Deploy to carve out sandboxes for each team.

Ask Octopus Episode 16-18 - Stopping Deployments during Upgrade, Upgrading Octopus & Automatically Auditing your Projects

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.

What is the difference between blue/green and red/black deployments?

The term blue/green and red/black are used to describe deployment strategies, but do they mean different things?

Octopus plugin for Jira - Better visibility for your software pipeline

Our new Octopus Deploy plugin for Jira makes it easy to plan, track and ship software with better end-to-end visibility of your software pipeline.

Adding notifications for every production deployment

An introductory guide to using subscriptions with webhooks.

Turbocharging TeamCity with Octopus Deploy

Derek Campbell hosted a Webinar with Jetbrains on "Turbocharging TeamCity with Octopus Deploy"
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Documentation

Copy the working directory

Copy the Calamari working directory to assist in debugging.

Kubernetes cluster

How to configure a Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus

Built-in Octopus repository

Using the Octopus built-in repository.

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