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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.Ask Octopus Episode 4 - Scheduled Deployments, Multiple Teams Sharing One Project, and Channel Version Rules
Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.Creating a Kubernetes Operator with Kotlin
Learn what Kubernetes Operators are, and see an example Kotlin OperatorOctopus May Release 3.13
This month's release brings some exciting new features including support for Azure Service Fabric, HSTS, optional lifecycles and performance improvements, among other things!Deploying a Java web app with a MySQL backend through Octopus Deploy
This post demonstrates how to deploy a Java web application that uses a MySQL backend using Octopus Deploy.PowerShell and exit code 0
Exit code 0 in PowerShell can signify anything from "the script ran perfectly" to "your script is so horribly broken that Windows needs to be treated for PTSD". Here's how we handle it in Octopus.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.Library variable set permission changes
Some upcoming changes to how library variable set permissions workIntroducing Operations Runbooks for your operations team
Introducing runbooks for your operations team. It’s now possible to run operations and maintenance tasks like file clean-ups, backup and restore jobs, as well as disaster recovery failovers.The ultimate guide to rolling deployments
What are rolling deployments and why are they useful? This post covers the rolling deployment pattern and practical examples of how to implement it with different tooling.
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Projects
Projects let you create and manage your deployment processes, releases, and operations processes.Coordinating multiple projects
This guide covers scenarios where it is necessary to co-ordinate deployment between multiple projects and take some action that depends on their combined status.Deploy a release step
The deploy a release step allows you to trigger the deployment of a release of a project from another projectProject coordination code samples
Project coordination guide code samples that show how to perform various tasks covered in the guide.Project triggers
Project Triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project such as automatically deploying a release to an environment.Automatic release creation
Automatic release creation allows you to automatically create a new release when a new package is pushed to the built-in package repository.Deployment target triggers
Deployment target triggers allow you to define unattended behavior for your project that will cause an automatic deployment of a release into an environment.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.Variables
Defining variables in Octopus allows you to promote your applications through environments and update their configuration files.AWS account variables
Create an AWS account to use it in AWS-related deployment stepsAzure account variables
Create an Azure account variable to use it in Azure deployment stepsCertificate variables
Variables in Octopus Deploy can have a certificate as the valueLibrary variable sets
Library variable sets allow you to define and share common variables between your Octopus projects.Output variables
Output variables allow you to set dynamic variables in one step that can be used in subsequent steps.Prompted variables
Prompted variables allow you to prompt a user to enter a value rather than storing it in Octopus.Sensitive variables
Sensitive variables allow you to define secret values used in your applications that can be securely stored in Octopus, or retrieved from a Secret Manager/Key Vault using one of our community step templates.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.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.