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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 Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

Octopus Deploy is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). We can assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities within our scope, so customers can confirm their installations are secure.

Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure

How to set up Octopus High Availability in Microsoft Azure.

Introducing the Octopus Control Center

We want our customers to love their Octopus experience. We knew we could do better with the Octopus Account, so we've redesigned it. Find out what's changed.

Using HashiCorp Vault with Octopus

Introducing step templates that allow secrets stored in HashiCorp Vault to be used in deployments or runbooks.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Variable Editor Redesign

The variable editor has been revamped for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

My quest to reclaim the backlog

Getting on top of suggestions, feature requests and bugs

Debugging "element does not exist in the collection properties" for SSIS

Learn about issues with package parameters when automating SSIS deployments, and how to avoid an error using different versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server.

Automatically provisioning Amazon EC2 instances with Tentacle installed

A short code snippet that helps you to create EC2 instances with the Octopus Deploy Tentacle agent installed and registered, ready for deployment.

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Infrastructure Redesign

The environments are has been revamped into a new Infrastructure area for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.

Octopus 2021 Q2: Migrate to the cloud with Octopus Deploy

Octopus 2021 Q2: Export/Import Projects EAP, Azure Zip Deploy, GitHub Actions, Terraform integration and Octopus Cloud improvements.

Explore a live Octopus Deploy server

We've made a demo server available to explore a real Octopus Deploy instance

Deploying to IBM WebSphere Liberty

Learn how to deploy to an IBM WebSphere Liberty web server with Octopus Deploy.
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Documentation

Health check step

Health check steps allow you to perform a health check on deployment targets as part of a deployment or runbook, and take action based on the result.

Packaging applications

Packaging applications for deployment with Octopus Deploy.

Bulk Operations

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to perform a variety of bulk operations using the Octopus Deploy API.

Bulk add a project to a list of tenants

An example script that will add a project to a lot of tenants at once.

Reports

This section includes examples of how to use the REST API to generate comma separated reports using the Octopus Deploy API.

Project permissions report

An example script that will provide a report of which users have access to specific projects.

Export projects

An example script that will export projects that can be imported into a different space on the same, or different Octopus instance.

Import projects

An example script that will import projects from a previously executed export task from another space on an Octopus instance.

Package repositories

Octopus can consume package feeds from the built-in repository, local and remote NuGet feeds, Maven, JetBrains TeamCity, MyGet and Azure DevOps or TFS Package Management.

Promote a release not in the destination

An example script that will promote a release if it is not in the destination.

Create sanitized database backup

How to create a sanitized database backup to send up to Octopus Support.

Providing database performance metrics

How to provide database performance metrics to help the Octopus team resolve issues.

Record memory snapshots

How to record memory snapshots of your running Octopus Server so we can solve memory issues.

Record a performance trace

How to record a software performance trace of your running Octopus Server so we can solve performance issues.

Best Practices

Some of the best practices you can adopt to set yourself up for success in using Octopus Deploy.

Deployment and Runbook Processes

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring deployment and runbook processes in Octopus Deploy.

Environments, Deployment Targets, and Roles

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring environments, deployment targets, and lifecycles in Octopus Deploy.

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