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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.

Redesigned Tenants overview dashboard

Learn how we redesigned our Tenants overview dashboard to make it easier to view and manage thousands of tenants.

Connecting a project to multiple tenants as a bulk action

Learn about our new bulk actions for tenanted deployments in Octopus. Connect a project to multiple tenants and add or clone a new tenant straight from the project page.

Managing all consumers of your JavaScript library as tenants

Use Octopus tenants to control who references which version of your JavaScript library project.

Introducing dark mode

Octopus 2020.1 introduces a dark theme to Octopus Deploy.

Introducing Execution Timeouts

Learn about our new Execution Timeouts feature to handle unexpectedly long-running processes.

Reprioritizing the task queue

Learn about our new feature that lets you reprioritize the task queue in Octopus.

Octopus Deploy 2019.8 - Streamlined deployment process editor, Tenant cloning, and more ...

Octopus 2019.8 introduces our streamlined deployment process editor, tenant cloning, and numerous other enhancements and improvements.

Octopus Deploy 3.7: Effortless step templates

The new release of Octopus Deploy steps it up a notch by improving the UI for adding a step template, providing direct access to community step templates from a project's deployment process and improving the management of step templates in the library.

Variable Editor: A Journey

An exploration of the improvements we have made to the Variable Editor

Variable Editor Redesign - RFC

Updates to the variable editor ...

Building the Octopus CLI vNext

Learn about our plans to build the next version of the Octopus CLI.

Octopus script editor uplift

Find out how we improved the script editor experience in Octopus Deploy.

Introducing Operations Runbooks for your operations team

Introducing runbooks for your operations team. It’s now possible to run operations and maintenance tasks like file clean-ups, backup and restore jobs, as well as disaster recovery failovers.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Variable Editor Redesign

The variable editor has been revamped for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

Octostache Update - JSON, Indexing, Formatting and Dates

New changes required to Octostache to support Docker provided an opportunity to provide some additionally requested features

External feed triggers

We're introducing external feed triggers for Kubernetes. This monitors Helm chart repositories and container image registries referenced in your deployment steps. When it detects a new version, Octopus automatically creates a release.

Octopus Deploy 2019.11: Operations Runbooks RTW

Octopus 2019.11 introduces our Runbooks platform for automating operations tasks with support for scheduling, permissions, parameterized runs and more.

Octopus February Release 2018.2

What's new in Octopus 2018.2

Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI

Enable tab completion for the Octopus CLI today! We'll also dive into how shell completion works in some popular shell environments.

Tenant aware lifecycles

Introducing multiple tenants to your deployment process in 3.4.0 has impacts on how that release progresses through its life cycle. Tenants can define required environments and un tenanted deployments can ensure deployments can be made where a tenant context is not relevant.

How we create the Tentacle Army

Before a release of Octopus is published we fire up the Tentacle Army and attempt to break the release. At the moment the Tentacle Army consists of 800 tentacles located in Singapore and Brazil, regions chosen for their high region-to-region latency.

Channels Walkthrough

Supporting advanced deployment scenarios with Octopus Deploy 3.2 and Channels

GitHub Feeds

GitHub Feeds now allow deployments from source code without having to explicitly build packages

Octopus Deploy Config as Code: early access preview

Octopus Deploy's Configuration as Code solution is now available as a preview release for all customers.

Octopus June Release 3.14

This month's release brings some exciting new features including our new Octopus plugin for Atlassian's Bamboo build server as well as easier upgrades, security improvements and better performance.
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Documentation

Upload to AWS S3 template

Upload to AWS S3 template.

Install autocomplete

Install a shell auto-complete script into your shell profile, if they aren't already there. Supports pwsh, zsh, bash & powershell.

The Octopus Command Line (CLI)

The Octopus CLI (octo) is the Octopus command line tool that builds on top of the Octopus REST API.

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