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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.

Octopus 2.0: Bound fields UX

Taming the Kraken: How to protect your data

Learn how to keep your data safe when Octopus Deploy is deploying your database updates.

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.

Exporting and importing projects between spaces

In Octopus 2021.1 we've introduced a new feature to export and import projects.

RFC: Docker integration

Request For Comment on proposed Docker integration

Deploy SQL Server DACPAC with Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy SQL Server DACPAC using Octopus Deploy.

Managing credentials in Jenkins

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, we take a look at the best way to manage credentials in Jenkins with the Credentials Binding plugin.

Whitepaper: Benefits of Deployment Automation

How DevOps principles power Octopus documentation

How DevOps principles power Octopus documentation producing 60 guides with 300,000 words, 6,000 images and 25 hours of video maintained by a team of two.

Octopus Deploy 3.5: Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Introducing Octopus Deploy 3.5, with new features including Subscriptions, Azure AD, GoogleApps and Extensibility

Selenium series: Exposing Gherkin steps

In this post, we investigate the regular expressions that make up complex Gherkin steps

Using dynamic build agents to automate scaling in Jenkins

With some setup, Jenkins can automatically react to your processing needs, creating extra nodes to manage processes. This post explains 2 setup methods.

Selenium series: Writing a Gherkin feature

In this post, we write a complete test in Gherkin

Deploying SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports with Octopus

How to deploy SQL Server Reporting Services reports with Octopus Deploy.

Documentation

Install Tentacles and Workers for database deployments

Where to install Tentacles and how to configure Workers.

Prompted variables

Prompted variables allow you to prompt a user to enter a value rather than storing it in Octopus.

Approvals with Manual Interventions

Step by step guide on how to use Manual Interventions in Octopus Deploy for approvals

Delete an existing AWS CloudFormation stack

Delete an existing AWS CloudFormation stack.

Variable templates

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

Delete an AWS CloudFormation stack

Use a runbook to teardown resources by deleting an AWS CloudFormation stack.

Terraform

Octopus Deploy can help you automate provisioning infrastructure with Terraform using runbooks.

Windows

Deployment examples for Windows, including Services, IIS websites and app pools, and more.

Custom installation directory

The Custom Installation Directory feature deploys your package to a specific location on the server.

Approvals

Octopus Deploy can integrate with supported ITSM tools for deployment control using Change Request approvals

Insights

Insights gives you better visibility into your company's DevOps performance.

Spaces

Spaces setup and configuration.

Customizing an Octopus Server extension

Octopus Deploy built-in server extensions are available on GitHub and can be forked and customized.

Azure

Octopus Deploy can help you automate the provisioning of infrastructure in Azure using runbooks.

Accounts

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to create and manage accounts in Octopus.

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