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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.

An Octopus Christmas Carol

A look at Octopus in 2022 through the lens of deployments past, present, and yet to come

Webinar, 28th March: What's new in Octopus 1.5

I'll be hosting a webinar to demonstrate the new features in Octopus 1.5: Azure deployments, FTP/FTPS, ScriptCS and more

Automating SQL Server Developer installation

Learn how to automate SQL Server Developer installation using PowerShell and SQL Server's built-in tooling.

How secure is Octopus Deploy, anyway?

Octopus Deploy is maturing as a business, and that means our security posture is maturing too.

Interview: Deploying NuGet.org

Video interview about how the NuGet.org website is deployed via Octopus Deploy

Webinar, May 6th: What's new in Octopus 2.4!

Come along to this webinar to learn more about the features in Octopus 2.4

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP

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.

Webinar: Automating deployments with VSTS and Octopus Deploy

Announcing a webinar with Brian A. Randell and Damian Brady to show the Octopus Deploy extension for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server

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!

Best practices for CI/CD

8 best practices for CI/CD, using agile, committing code frequently, using Config as Code, keeping builds green, automating your tests, using a feedback loop, and using fit for purpose technologies.

Lessons learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Some of the lessons I learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows

Deploying PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) like an App with Octopus Deploy

Use Octopus Deploy custom step templates and configuration data files (DSC configuration) to deploy your Infrastructure as Code using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).

Implementing DevSecOps to respond to vulnerabilities

As part of our series about Runbooks, learn how to configure your CI/CD pipeline to quickly identify and respond to vulnerabilities.

Calculating DORA metrics with Runbooks

Learn how to measure the performance of your deployments using the DORA metrics and a custom runbook.

Mixing Keys in Tomcat

Learn how to configure Tomcat to support both RSA and ECDSA certificates on a single HTTPS port.

Generating instance types lists for CloudFormation

As part of our series on Runbooks, learn how to generate a list of available instance types to include in CloudFormation templates.

Creating an EC2 Octopus Worker with CloudFormation

Learn how to deploy an EC2 configured as an Octopus Worker via a CloudFormation template.

Octopus December Release 4.1

This month's release of Octopus expands support for Java with Maven feeds and certificate deployments to WildFly and Tomcat.

An Introduction to Arquillian Testing

Testing Java EE code requires more than just a unit test. This blog post looks at how Arquillian solves the problem of testing Java EE apps.

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.

Creating an RDS instance with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to create an RDS instance with this sample CloudFormation template.

Top 8 container registries

There are many container registry services, suitable for all different kinds of teams. We look at the top 8 and why you might consider them.

Deploying a Lambda with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to deploy a Lambda with this sample CloudFormation template.
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Documentation

Security Self Assessment Questionnaire (CAIQ - Lite)

Read about our security posture in real terms

Variable filters

Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.

Register SSH target

An example script to register an SSH target using the REST API.

AWS S3 Bucket feeds

Configuring AWS S3 buckets as Octopus Feeds

Approvals

Octopus Deploy can integrate with supported ITSM tools for deployment control using Change Request approvals

ServiceNow Integration

Octopus Deploy can integrate with your ServiceNow instance for deployment control using Change Request approvals

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