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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.

Octopus Workers and Performance

Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performance

Continuous Delivery for .NET Core using Octopus Deploy and Bitbucket Pipelines

Learn how to use Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines to automatically build, test and deploy .NET core apps on code commits using Octopus Deploy

Safe schema updates - Strangling the monolith

This post discusses patterns for migrating from a tightly coupled to a loosely coupled architecture.

Azure Environments

Octopus Deploy's response to Log4j

Learn how Octopus Deploy responded to the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).

Our most popular webinars in 2021

Join us as we list out our favorite webinars of 2021.

Managing all consumers of your JavaScript library as tenants

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

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.

Automating guided failures with an AWS Lambda and subscriptions

Learn how to automate the response to guided failure using an AWS Lambda with an Octopus subscription.

DeployFailed.ps1 support

Why Octopus uses self-signed certificates

Using the Deploy an Azure App Service step

Learn how to use the new Azure App Service step in Octopus Deploy.

Secrets in GitHub Actions

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to add secrets in GitHub to use with GitHub Actions, plus how to call them in workflows.

An introduction to build servers and Continuous Integration

This post opens our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, with an overview on the benefits of build servers, particularly Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

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.

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.

Documentation

List releases

List releases by project

Update Amazon ECS Service

Update an existing Amazon ECS Service.

Applying changes from Terraform templates

Direction on using Octopus steps for applying or destroying Terraform templates

Preparing your Terraform environment

Configuring remote state, backends, and cloud accounts using Terraform with Octopus

Terraform output variables

Instructions on accessing and utilizing Terraform output variables

Terraform step configuration

Configuring common Terraform options using the Octopus built in steps

Infrastructure

The infrastructure tab in the Octopus Web Portal is where you manage your environments, deployment targets, and other infrastructure.

Environments

Environments are how you group your deployment targets so you can promote your software through different phases, for instance, into Development, then Test, and finally into Production.

Container registries

Instructions on how to set-up third-party container registries as external package feeds for Octopus to consume for use in deployments and runbooks.

AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

How to add an AWS Elastic Container Registry as an Octopus feed

Azure Container Registry

How to add an Azure Container Registry as an Octopus Deploy feed

Docker Hub

How to add Docker Hub as an Octopus Deploy feed for use in Docker steps.

GitLab container registry

Configuring a GitLab container registry as an Octopus feed.

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