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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

Documentation

Migration API

Octopus includes a migration API that provides the ability to back-up and restore parts of an Octopus Deploy instance remotely.

Azure DevOps and Team Foundation Server Extension Version Compatibility

This guide explains the Octopus extension versions that are compatible with different versions of Azure DevOps and Team Foundation Server

Compatibility

Backward compatibility between Octopus Server and related components

Create packages with OctoPack

Using OctoPack is the easiest way to package .NET applications for use in your deployments.

Create AWS account command

New-OctopusAwsAccount allows you to create an AWS 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

Scheduled deployment triggers

Automatic deployment triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project that will cause an automatic deployment of a release into an environment.

System variables

System variables are variables provided by Octopus that can be used in your deployments.

Variable filters

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

Variable substitutions

Variable substitutions are a flexible way to adjust configuration based on your variables and the context of your deployment.

Variable templates

Variable templates can be defined in Octopus to indicate which variable values are required to successfully deploy a project.

Azure account variables

Create an Azure account variable to use it in Azure deployment steps

Certificate variables

Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the value

Runbooks permissions

Permissions are available to help you manage access to Runbooks.

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.

Restore SQL database to another environment

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

Restarting a Tomcat Web application

With Octopus Deploy you can restart a Tomcat web application as part of a routine operations task.

Create MySQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can create a MySQL database with a Runbook.

Provision an Azure App Service

Provision an Azure App Service using a runbook

Hardening Octopus

If you are hosting Octopus Deploy yourself, this guide will help you harden your network, host operating system, and Octopus Server itself. This includes things such as configuring malware protection (anti-virus), and utilizing allow lists.

Default permissions for built-in user roles

A listing of the default permissions for each of the built-in user roles.

User roles

User roles are a critical part of the Octopus security model whereby they are assigned to Teams and they dictate what the members of those teams can do in Octopus.

Jenkins Pipeline projects

Managing Octopus steps in a Jenkins pipeline project.

Backup SQL database

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

Provision an AWS RDS instance

Provision an AWS RDS using a runbook

Backup MySQL database

With Octopus Deploy you can backup a MySQL database with a Runbook

Backup RDS SQL database to S3

This section shows you how to perform a native SQL backup for an RDS SQL database and store in an S3 bucket.

Restore RDS SQL database from S3

An example that demonstrates restoring a database backup file from an S3 bucket.

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