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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.

Deploying database changes to Cassandra

Learn how to deploy database changes to a Cassandra server using Octopus Deploy and Liquibase.

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.

Configuring the web.xml file during deployment

Learn how a Java web.xml file can be customized during an Octopus deployment

Selenium series: The Maven POM file

In this post, we create a simple Pom.xml file, configuring the Selenium dependencies.

Selenium series: Creating an UberJAR

In this post, we create a self-contained Jar file that can be deployed to AWS Lambda

Selenium series: Deploying a simple Lambda function

In this post, we deploy the UberJAR to Lambda

Selenium series: A sample web page

In this post, we create a sample web page to run some tests against.

Hosting a Maven repo in Amazon S3

Learn how to host a fully functional Maven repository in Amazon S3

Reusable YAML with CircleCI orbs

An overview of using and creating CircleCI Orbs.

Deploying Spring Boot Applications as Windows Services

Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot application as a Windows service with Octopus Deploy

Creating a Kubernetes Operator with Kotlin

Learn what Kubernetes Operators are, and see an example Kotlin Operator

Using the WildFly CLI

Learn how to use the WildFly CLI to query and configure a WildFly application server.

WildFly S3 Domain Discovery

Learn how to use S3 buckets as a domain discovery mechanism in AWS.

Creating a WildFly cluster

Learn how to use a shared database to create a WildFly cluster in AWS.

Multi-cloud Kubernetes with Octopus Deploy

Learn how Octopus Deploy works with Kubernetes on cloud platforms.

SNI in Tomcat

SNI allows Tomcat to respond with multiple HTTPS certificates on on single port. This blog post looks at how to configure SNI.

Defining Tomcat context paths

Learn how Tomcat defines the context path of your web application.

Documentation

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via PowerShell

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the PowerShell

Installing the Tentacle VM extension via the Azure CLI

How to install the Tentacle VM Extension using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)

Report on deployments using Excel & XML

How to report on deployments using Excel & XML

Hardening Apache

With Octopus Deploy you can harden Apache with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Create packages with OctoPack

Using OctoPack is the easiest way to package .NET applications for use in your deployments.

Deploying Web Jobs

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments of your applications into Azure Web Jobs.

Packaging a Service Fabric application

Learn how to package a Service Fabric application so it can be deployed from Octopus.

HTML and JavaScript applications

This guide provides a simple example of deploying and configuring a simple JavaScript application built using AngularJS.

Environment specific .NET configuration transforms with sensitive values

How to configure environment-specific .NET configuration transforms while keeping sensitive values in Octopus.

.NET XML configuration variables feature

The .NET XML Configuration Variables feature updates your .NET XML configuration files with the values from matching Octopus variables.

Structured configuration variables

The Structured Configuration Variables feature updates your JSON, YAML, XML, and Properties configuration files with values from matching Octopus variables.

Environment permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to a specific permission for a specific environment.

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