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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.

Deploying Spring Boot Applications as Windows Services

Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot application as a Windows service with Octopus Deploy

Configuring the web.xml file during deployment

Learn how a Java web.xml file can be customized during an Octopus deployment

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.

Spring configuration strategies across environments

Learn how Octopus helps you customize your Spring applications as they are deployed across multiple environments

Paved versus golden paths in Platform Engineering

Find out the critical difference between paved paths and golden paths in Platform Engineering.

Introducing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud has been a while in the making. In this post we look at how and why Octopus Cloud came to be, and what the future may look like

Selenium series: modifying HTTP responses

In this post, we learn how to modify network responses passed through BrowserStack.

Using Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline

This post shows you how to use Operations Runbooks to run ad-hoc SQL scripts in your database deployment automation pipeline.

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

Automated Database Deployments Iteration Zero

Manual Deployments - RFC

High Availability performance benefits

Octopus Deploy High Availability is our offering for customers where Octopus Deploy has become a critical piece of infrastructure. In addition to the benefits of extra reliability, High Availability provides performance gains over a single Octopus Server. Our aim was to provide a linear performance increase as you add nodes to your High Availability cluster.

Bitbucket Pipelines - Octo.exe Container Redux

Deployments from Bitbucket to Octopus is now easier when using Containers

Flexible Working - Jason's Story

Flexible work can be life changing

Packaging for .NETCore, on .NETCore, with Octopus

Using Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications on .NETCore

Eating our own dog food

How using Octopus to manage Octopus Cloud has helped us eat our own dog food and improve

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Building the Octopus Cloud in AWS

Announcing Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud is now generally available!

Kubernetes, Containers, and Octopus - An Update

A progress update on adding Kubernetes support to Octopus

Octopus Workers

Octopus now supports external worker machines

Octopus July Release 2018.7

Octopus 2018.7 - Sharing the Workload with Workers!

Webinar - Starting the DevOps Journey

Taking a DevOps approach and paving the way for staying ahead in business

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Automated Database Deployments using State Based Redgate SQL Change Automation

Variable Substitutions in Octopus 1.2.2

Webinar - DevOps Deep Dive

All your DevOps questions answered

Integrating docker-compose steps with Octopus Deploy

Performing docker-compose is easy with the new script running capabilities

Octopus Workers and Performance

Using Octopus Workers to improve server and deployment performance

Documentation

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.

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.

Workers

External workers are machines that can execute steps that don't need to be performed on the Octopus Server or deployment targets.

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