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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.

Introducing Operations Runbooks for your operations team

Introducing runbooks for your operations team. It’s now possible to run operations and maintenance tasks like file clean-ups, backup and restore jobs, as well as disaster recovery failovers.

Maintaining your own version of the Azure CLI

Learn how to manage your own version of the Azure CLI and why we no longer support tooling.

Difference between docker.io, docker-cd, and Docker Desktop

Learn which version of Docker to install for your operating system.

March 2015 Community Roundup

Continuous Delivery with Octopus and Kubernetes

This training series provides a step by step walk-through building multi-environment deployments with Octopus and Kubernetes.

Blue/green deployments

Watch the blue/green deployment strategy, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Getting started with Docker

This post opens our Kubernetes training series. First, learn how to install Docker on your local workstation.

Installing a development Kubernetes cluster

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn to to install a local development Kubernetes cluster with kind.

Creating Docker containers

Next in our Kubernetes training series, learn how to create a Docker image and run it as a container.

Creating Kubernetes pods, ReplicaSets, and deployments

Learn how to create Kubernetes pods, ReplicaSets, and deployments from YAML manifests, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Creating Kubernetes services

Learn how to expose pods to network traffic via a service, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Deploying to Kubernetes with Octopus

Learn how to configure a Kubernetes cluster as an Octopus target and deploy applications to it, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Multi-environment deployments

Learn how to progress deployments to multiple environments as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Installing a dashboard

Learn how to install helm and then use it to install a dashboard to monitor the cluster, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Observing deployment strategies

Watch in realtime as pods are redeployed with different deployment strategies, as part of our Kubernetes training series.

Improving delivery of your deployment steps

Our new step package framework means we can deliver new steps to your Octopus instance faster and without the need for upgrades. Learn more.

Testing Kubernetes locally

Learn about the tools available for developers testing Kubernetes on their local machines.

Using Docker as a package manager

This post demonstrates how Docker is a convenient solution for downloading and running many CLI tools.

What is cloud orchestration?

The post discusses cloud orchestration and cloud automation, as a service models, cloud orchestration tooling, and where Octopus fits in as a cloud-agnostic deployment tool.

Deploying a Secured Web App to Tomcat with Octopus

Learn how to go from a fresh Tomcat download to a secured web app deployment using the new features in Octopus 4.1

ConfigMaps and Secrets

Learn how to configure applications with ConfigMaps and Secrets, as part of our Kubernetes training series

ConfigMaps and Secrets demo

Watch as applications are deployed to a cluster configured with either a ConfigMap or Secret, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Vulnerability in HTTP.sys Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Configuring the web.xml file during deployment

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

Role Based Access Control

Learn the Kubernetes resources used to implement RBAC, as part of our Kubernetes training series

Documentation

Create sanitized database backup

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

Database backups and rollbacks

Recommendations on backing up and rolling back a database during a failed deployment.

Disaster recovery

How to work with your data and disaster recovery in an Octopus Cloud instance.

Creating releases from a build server plugin on a version-controlled project

Examples of how to ensure that the right branch is used to create the release when using a build server plugin.

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