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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.

How GitHub Actions is different to traditional build servers

We explore how GitHub Actions, providing Continuous Integration as a Service, is different to traditional build servers.

Reusable YAML with CircleCI orbs

An overview of using and creating CircleCI Orbs.

On the naming of “DevOps Engineers”

Why is this job title so controversial? What's a better option?

New in GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

We updated our GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy with new features and to improve usability. Learn more.

New in GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v3

We shipped the third version of GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy with new features. Learn how the new actions improve your deployment experience.

From Sysadmin to SRE

Infrastructure as Code, the Sysadmin’s portal into DevOps

Adding versions to your GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions are a powerful new feature for GitHub users, but they lack native versioning capabilities. In this blog post, we’ll see how to implement versioning.

Learn how to call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

A dive into the Jenkins REST API, with examples in PowerShell for creating new jobs

Live updates of Kubernetes objects during deployment

Introducing the Kubernetes Object Status check feature, providing a live update of Kubernetes objects during deployment.

Using dynamic build agents to automate scaling in Jenkins

With some setup, Jenkins can automatically react to your processing needs, creating extra nodes to manage processes. This post explains 2 setup methods.

Beyond Hello World: Kubernetes for the uninitiated

A high-level overview of Kubernetes with a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions

A post showing how to create a GitHub Action that pushes a package to Octopus.

At the helm with Shipra Mahindra

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Shipra Mahindra, Senior Product Manager.

Source control your Azure Bicep files

Learn how to use GitHub to source control your Azure Bicep files and then deploy them using Octopus.

At the helm with Kyle Jackson

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Kyle Jackson, Security Operations Manager.

Publishing a package to a local Octopus instance with GitHub Actions

Learn how to push a package to a local instance of Octopus Deploy with a GitHub Actions Runner

10 of our favorite Jenkins plugins

Jenkins has over 1800 community-created plugins to help with continuous integration. Here are 10 we think are useful, as part of our series about CI and build servers.

Getting started with Bamboo

Learn how to install Bamboo, and build and push a Docker image to a container registry.

Domain does DevOps

Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.

Jenkins security tips

As Jenkins connects to many industry tools, it's a good idea to keep your instance as secure as possible. Here are our tips to keep your team safe.

Configuring Jenkins in Azure and deploying with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Jenkins instance in Azure and deploy with Octopus.

Understanding performance through team types

Find out how the descriptive team types in the State of DevOps report can help you improve.
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Documentation

Deploying Web Jobs

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

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions can leverage the Octopus CLI to pack, build, push, and create releases for Octopus Deploy.

Call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

Learn how to call the Jenkins REST API from PowerShell

Azure web apps

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments to Azure web apps.

Rollback Kubernetes deployment

A guide on how to rollback a Kubernetes deployment

Azure

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

Database backups and rollbacks

Recommendations on backing up and rolling back a database during a failed deployment.

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