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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.

Using Octopus Subscriptions

Subscriptions let you subscribe to events so you can be notified when things are happening in your world of Octopus!

Tips to avoid duplicating deployment steps

Octopus July Release 3.15

This month's release includes multi-tenant deployment improvements, Octopus Server Let's Encrypt integration, and more!

Convert an existing application to use rolling deployments

Learn how to convert an existing application to use the rolling deployments deployment pattern in Octopus with child steps.

Farmer: Simpler ARM deployments with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to use Farmer to create and deploy ARM templates with Octopus Deploy

How has deployment automation benefited you?

Changes to the TFS/VSTS Extension

An update on the changes in the TFS and VSTS extension for build and release tasks

Deploying Certificates to WildFly

Learn how to deploy certificates from Octopus to WildFly to enable HTTPS support

Fast track code promotion in your CI/CD pipeline

Learn how to use pre-approved deployment pipelines to rapidly promote code into production

Documentation

Rancher Kubernetes cluster

How to configure a Rancher Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus

OpenShift Kubernetes cluster

How to configure an OpenShift Kubernetes cluster as a deployment target in Octopus.

Runbooks

With Octopus runbook automation you can automate routine or emergency operations-centric processes, for instance, disaster recovery and database backups.

Runbooks examples

Examples of using Runbooks to streamline and automate your routine and emergency operations tasks using Octopus Deploy.

Azure

Octopus Deploy can help you automate the provisioning of infrastructure in Azure using runbooks.

Deploy an Azure Resource Manager template

Deploy an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.

Database examples

Examples of using Runbooks to help automate database maintenance.

Backup SQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can backup a MSSQL database with a Runbook.

Emergency operations

This section includes examples of how to use runbooks to help automate disaster recovery operations.

Manually failover DNS

With Octopus Deploy you can manually failover DNS with a Runbook.

Automatically failover DNS with monitoring

With Octopus Deploy you can monitor your application and failover DNS with a runbook.

Routine operations

Octopus Deploy allows you to create and run runbooks for routine operations tasks, which don't happen very frequently.

Install software with Chocolatey

Create runbooks to install software with Chocolatey as part of a routine operations task.

Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

With Octopus Deploy you can install Tomcat on Ubuntu with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Updating Linux

With Octopus Deploy you can update and patch Linux machines with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Runbooks permissions

Permissions are available to help you manage access to Runbooks.

Runbooks publishing

Publishing makes a runbook available to scheduled triggers and consumers.

Runbooks vs Deployments

Describing the differences between a deployment and a runbook.

Scheduled runbook triggers

Scheduled runbook triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your runbook that will cause an automatic runbook run to environments of your choosing.

Restore SQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can restore a MSSQL database with a runbook.

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