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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.Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster
Learn how to build and configure a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun and development purposes.Working at Octopus - a story of silicon and steel
A history of the computers I have enjoyed as a result of the Octopus Deploy computer policy.Wizards, dialogs and context menus, or build servers and scripts?
Reflecting on the benefits of continuous integration tools, I'm wondering whether our focus on great CI support has meant Octopus is too hard to simply get started with. How can we improve the getting started story?Octopus July Release 3.15
This month's release includes multi-tenant deployment improvements, Octopus Server Let's Encrypt integration, and more!Octopus Deploy 3.6: Project Trigger enhancements
Octopus Deploy 3.6: Project Trigger enhancementsInside DevOps with Jason Dunnivant from Olo
A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. Our first post features Jason Dunnivant, Release Engineer at Olo.Introducing dark mode
Octopus 2020.1 introduces a dark theme to Octopus Deploy.At the helm with Bob Walker
A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Bob Walker, our Technical Director of Customer Success.Inside DevOps with Dan Horrocks-Burgess from DDA Software
A series where we share lessons learned from those on the frontlines of DevOps. This post features Dan Horrocks-Burgess of DDA Software.Negotiating with the gatekeepers
Building trust relationships between humans is rarely as simple as comparing thumbprints.Deploying SQL Server Security with dbatools and Octopus Deploy
A discussion about the challenge of managing SQL Server users and roles, and a script that uses dbatools to version control and deploy them.Feature branch environments with Kubernetes and Octopus
Creating dynamic environments inside of Kubernetes for feature branches with Octopus.Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure
How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book
Your guide to selecting your first/next DevOps book.The state of config file formats: XML vs. YAML vs. JSON vs. HCL
Learn about the different configuration file formats that are available and when you should use them.Java deployments to Tomcat with YAML and XML configuration file replacements
Learn how to take advantage of the XML, YAML, and Properties configuration file replacement when deploying Java applications.Introduction to HCL and HCL tooling
Learn about the different tooling you can use with HCL.Deploying to Oracle with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase
Learn how to deploy to Oracle using Octopus Deploy and Liquibase.Runbook lessons learned and recommendations
Recommendations from lessons learned on how to design and implement runbooksRFC: Azure Service Fabric support
This post aims to discuss integrated support for deployments to Azure Service Fabric from Octopus DeployIntegrating Octopus and Grafana
Learn how to use the Octopus Grafana datasource plugin to visualize your deploymentsDeconstructing blue/green deployments in Kubernetes
Learn how to manually implement blue/green deployments in Kubernetes and Octopus.Exposing Octopus variables to a Kubernetes container
Learn how to use the envFrom feature in Kubernetes to pass groups of variables to a container.
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Environment recommendations
Environments form the backbone of your deployment pipeline. Here we provide some recommendations for configuring your environments to better prepare you to scale your Octopus Deploy instance up and out as you add more projects.Administration
Octopus administration tasks and command reference.Project recommendations
Projects form a critical element in Octopus Deploy. Here, we cover some recommendations for projects; getting started on the right foot is vital in helping your Octopus Deploy instance scale.High Availability
Octopus High Availability (HA) enables you to run multiple Octopus Server nodes, distributing load and tasks between them.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.