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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.

Adding notifications for every production deployment

An introductory guide to using subscriptions with webhooks.

Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase

Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy to MongoDB using Liquibase.

How DevOps principles power Octopus documentation

How DevOps principles power Octopus documentation producing 60 guides with 300,000 words, 6,000 images and 25 hours of video maintained by a team of two.

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Octopus Deploy in the Azure Marketplace

Octopus Deploy is now available in the Azure Marketplace

Octopuses

There are some compelling reasons to use multiple Octopus Servers. In Octopus Deploy 4.0 we want to add first-class support for these scenarios.

Escaping the pipe character in PowerShell commands

Using the pipe commands in PowerShell commands is not as simple as it seems.

Octopus TL;DR - Performance Improvements

Once a week we have a short "TL;DR" meeting where team members present things that are interesting. We're going to start recording and posting portions of them to YouTube each week. This first one was about some performance improvements.

Octopus plugin for Jenkins: Painless Jenkins integration

Octopus is launching our official Octopus Deploy plugin for Jenkins automation server, making it painless to integrate your Jenkins builds with Octopus deployments.

Managing Spaces with Octopus Data Center Manager RFC

We are designing a new product to manage Octopus Servers at scale. This is a request-for-comments.

Raising the minimum requirements for hosting and using Octopus Server

In 2020, we will raise the minimum requirements for hosting and using Octopus Server.

Bootstrap a .NET Core development environment for Linux

This post covers how to bootstrap a Linux-based development environment for day to day .NET Core development.

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Alpha 2

Octopus Deploy 3.4 is a big release, get involved in steering the direction of key features! Multi-tenant deployments. Elastic environments and transient machine support - machine policies and project triggers!

Beyond Hello World: Build a real-world Docker CI/CD pipeline

This post demonstrates incorporating Docker containers in the CI/CD pipeline for a real-world web application with web services and a database project.

Turbocharging TeamCity with Octopus Deploy

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

Expanded Script Modules Support

Octopus Deploy now supports script modules for Bash, C#, F# and Python!

Ending support for Octopus Server on Windows Server 2008. Introducing Octopus Server on Linux!

Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS will be the final version of Octopus Server which can be hosted on Windows Server 2008, paving the way for Octopus Server on Linux!

Active Directory Breaking change in 2019.5

What does the Active Directory breaking change mean for my organisation?

Ask Octopus Episode 19-21 - Installing Octopus, Staging deployment packages & Retrying rolling deployments

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 22-24 - Different package for different step templates, moving Octopus & Octopus Server version comparison

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.

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

How recent SHA1 collision attack discoveries impact Octopus, and PowerShell scripts to detect if you use SHA1 certificates

Azure Virtual Machine Extension

Announcing the re-release of the Azure Virtual Machine extension to install Tentacle's on your Cloud VMs

Octopus: High Availability is now available!

Octopus: HA is now available for general use as part of Octopus 3.1.

Ask Octopus Episode 25-27 - Centralized Logging, Worker working directory contents & Octopus/TeamCity Integration

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.
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Documentation

Create AWS account command

New-OctopusAwsAccount allows you to create an AWS account in Octopus from within a running deployment

Create token account command

New-OctopusTokenAccount allows you to create a Token account in Octopus from within a running deployment

Create username/password command

New-OctopusUserPassAccount allows you to create a username/password account in Octopus from within a running deployment

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