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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.

An Introduction to Arquillian Testing

Testing Java EE code requires more than just a unit test. This blog post looks at how Arquillian solves the problem of testing Java EE apps.

WildFly S3 Domain Discovery

Learn how to use S3 buckets as a domain discovery mechanism in AWS.

Creating a WildFly cluster

Learn how to use a shared database to create a WildFly cluster in AWS.

Configuring the web.xml file during deployment

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

Installing WildFly From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of WildFly.

Heartbleed and Octopus Deploy

Octopus uses SSL libraries in Windows, and so isn't vulnerable to the Hearbleed bug

Improved Azure App Service deployments

Learn about the improved Azure App Service deployment step included in Octopus 2021.1.

Migrating an ASP.NET web app from IIS on-premises to an Azure App Service

Learn how to migrate an ASP.NET web app from hosting it on-premises to an Azure App Service in the Cloud.

Request for Comments - ECS integration with Octopus

We're proposing new integrations with ECS in Octopus, and want your feedback.

OctoPack now supports assembly versions

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - History

The history of how Octopus 4.0 was born.

Using classes in custom step templates

Learn how to implement a class in a custom step template.

Roadmap published

Scheduled Recurring Deployments RFC

Scheduled recurring deployments is something that many other CI/CD tools provide out-of-the-box, and we think Octopus should support this functionality as well! This is a request-for-comments.

Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET

Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.

Using Azure Key Vault with Octopus

Introducing a new step template to allow secrets stored in Azure Key Vault to be used in deployments or runbooks.

Documentation

Rerun all canceled deployments and runbook runs after node shutdown.

An example script that determine which deployments and runbook runs were canceled because of a node shutdown and resubmit them.

Enable/disable project

An example script that enables or disables a project in Octopus.

Create a Google Cloud account

An example script to create a Google Cloud (GCP) account in Octopus.

Google Cloud

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments of your applications into Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Google cloud CLI scripts

Google cloud CLI Scripts allow you to manage your Google cloud resources as part of your deployment process.

Accounts

Configure accounts to use in conjunction with infrastructure during your deployments.

AWS accounts

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy infrastructure to AWS and run scripts against the AWS CLI.

Azure

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy software to your Windows servers, Linux servers, or cloud regions.

Google cloud accounts

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy infrastructure to GCP and run scripts against the gcloud CLI.

SSH key pair account

SSH key pair accounts allow you to securely authenticate with SSH targets.

Token account

Add token accounts to Octopus.

Username and password accounts

Username and Password Accounts allow you securely authenticate with different services.

Google cloud account variables

Create a Google cloud account variable to use it in Google Cloud deployment steps

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