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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.

Three ways to use custom Terraform plugins

Terraform does not yet support repositories for custom plugins, but here are three ways to utilize your custom plugins.

Testing PowerShell code with Pester

Learn how to test PowerShell code for any scenario with the PowerShell testing framework Pester.

Selenium series: Launching Cucumber tests

In this post, we launch a Cucumber test inside a Lambda

My First Year Working at Octopus

Rob Pearson sharing what it's like to work at Octopus Deploy and a bit about the company culture.

Deploying a Vault to WildFly

Learn how to deploy a vault from Octopus to WildFly to secure passwords in configuration files

Deploying Certificates to Tomcat

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

New Home for Octopus Documentation

After our documentation hosting provider went under, we decided to change where we host our docs.

On the naming of “DevOps Engineers”

Why is this job title so controversial? What's a better option?

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.

MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud 1.0

Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud, the SaaS version of Octopus, and how it shaped our plans for Octopus Cloud 2.0.

How we work - 2016 edition

An update on how we work as a team to build and support Octopus.

The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.

Octopus goes to conferences!

Octopus started attending conferences this year and we talk about what we learned through the experience.

Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP - Beta 1

Octopus 3.4 has finally reached beta maturity, and we are excited for you to try out these features for real in your own environment: now with multi-tenant deployments, improved support for elastic and transient environments, Cloud Regions, and proxy support for Tentacle communications.

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.

Safe schema updates - Continuous Integration is misunderstood

Learn about the principles that define Continuous Integration, and why you should avoid adopting specific practices, without knowing how to use them effectively.

Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates human problems

On loose coupling and domain-driven development, and how they mitigate human problems that are commonly associated with monolithic architectures.

Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

The first step towards safe production releases... safe dev/test deployments.

Bitbucket Pipelines: Pipes and integrating with Octopus Deploy

What are Bitbucket Pipes, and how can you integrate them into your Bitbucket Pipeline with Octopus Deploy?
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Documentation

Import certificates into WildFly and JBoss EAP

Configure WildFly or JBoss EAP with a certificate managed by Octopus.

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster

Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster.

Clustered Listening Tentacles

Configuring the Octopus Tentacle in an active/passive cluster.

Automating Tentacle installation

Information on how to install and configure an Octopus Tentacle in a fully automated way from the command line.

Credits

Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.

Java applications

Deploy to WildFly, Red Hat JBoss EAP and Tomcat using Octopus Deploy

Deploying a sample Java application

This guide provides a simple example of deploying a Java application with Octopus Deploy.

Java error messages and troubleshooting

Java deployment steps include a number of unique error codes that may be displayed in the output if there was an error

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