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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.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.

Introducing the Octopus Control Center

We want our customers to love their Octopus experience. We knew we could do better with the Octopus Account, so we've redesigned it. Find out what's changed.

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instance

Deploying to IBM WebSphere Liberty

Learn how to deploy to an IBM WebSphere Liberty web server with Octopus Deploy.

Insight Partners invests $172.5M in Octopus Deploy

Insight Partners is one of the largest and most successful venture funds in the world, and they’ve invested USD $172.5m in Octopus Deploy. Find out more.
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Documentation

Designing Octopus HA in GCP

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Designing Octopus HA in Azure

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in Microsoft Azure.

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.

Designing Octopus HA in AWS

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability hosted in AWS.

Installation Guidelines

Guidelines and recommendations for installing Octopus Deploy on your infrastructure.

Packaging applications

Packaging applications for deployment with Octopus Deploy.

Package repositories

Octopus can consume package feeds from the built-in repository, local and remote NuGet feeds, Maven, JetBrains TeamCity, MyGet and Azure DevOps or TFS Package Management.

Promote a release not in the destination

An example script that will promote a release if it is not in the destination.

Create sanitized database backup

How to create a sanitized database backup to send up to Octopus Support.

Providing database performance metrics

How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.

Record memory snapshots

How to record memory snapshots of your running Octopus Server so we can solve memory issues.

Record a performance trace

How to record a software performance trace of your running Octopus Server so we can solve performance issues.

Best Practices

Some of the best practices you can adopt to set yourself up for success in using Octopus Deploy.

Deployment and Runbook Processes

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring deployment and runbook processes in Octopus Deploy.

Environments, Deployment Targets, and Roles

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring environments, deployment targets, and lifecycles in Octopus Deploy.

Designing Octopus HA On-Premises

Information on configuring Octopus High Availability including database and shared storage set up for on-premises servers.

Load balancing

Instructions on how to set-up third-party load balancers for Octopus High Availability (HA) to direct user traffic between each of the Octopus Server nodes.

Configuring Netscaler

Script to configure a Netscaler load balancer for use with an Octopus High Availability instance.

Maintenance

Maintaining the nodes in your Octopus High Availability (HA) cluster is an important task that can be done in the Octopus Web Portal.

Maintain High Availability nodes

Managing the nodes in your Octopus High Availability cluster can be done in the Octopus Web Portal.

Polling Tentacles with HA

With Octopus High Availability, Polling Tentacles must poll all of the Octopus Server nodes in your configuration.

Migration

How to migrate from a stand-alone Octopus server to a High Availability (HA) setup.

Troubleshooting

Solutions to common problems with Octopus High Availability (HA).

Health check step

Health check steps allow you to perform a health check on deployment targets as part of a deployment or runbook, and take action based on the result.

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