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Introducing our first release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS

Octopus Server 2018.10 LTS is the first release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

Introducing our second release with long-term support - Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS

Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS is the second release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for most self-hosted customers.

Ask Octopus Episodes 43-45 - LTS 2019.6, restarting VMs during deployments & Automatic Release Creation.

A couple of times a week we meet up and talk about some of the most interesting questions we have received and how we went about solving them.

Octopus Server 2019.9 with Long Term Support (LTS)

Octopus Server 2019.9 LTS is here, and we recommend this release for self-hosted customers. This release includes our streamlined deployment process editor, Tentacle for Linux, Tenant cloning, and more.

Octopus Server 2019.12 with Long Term Support (LTS)

Octopus Server 2019.12 LTS is now available, and we recommend this release for self-hosted customers. This release includes Operations Runbooks, our official Jenkins plugin, PowerShell Core support, improved build server integration, and more.

Octopus releases and Long Term Support (LTS)

We’re iterating on the way we deliver releases of Octopus Deploy

Octopus Server 2019.6 with Long Term Support (LTS)

Octopus Server 2019.6 LTS is the third release with six months of long-term support. We recommend this release for self-hosted customers.

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 long-term Support for Octopus Server

In Q4 2018 we will be shipping our first release of Octopus Server with long-term support.

Ending support for Octopus Server on Windows Server 2008. Introducing Octopus Server on Linux!

Octopus Server 2019.3 LTS will be the final version of Octopus Server which can be hosted on Windows Server 2008, paving the way for Octopus Server on Linux!

How to install Jenkins on Docker

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via a Docker image.

Using the Ubuntu Docker image

Learn how to create custom Docker images based on the official Ubuntu base image.

How to install Jenkins on Windows and Linux

As part of our series about Continuous Integration and build servers, learn how to install Jenkins via the traditional installers.

Octopus 2020.5: Solid improvements and Config as Code update

Octopus 2020.5 introduces support for self-signed certificates, GitHub container registry support, Kubernetes and Terraform improvements and more.

Automatic release notes and work item tracking - Octopus Deploy 2019.4

Octopus 2019.4 introduces automatic release notes generation and rich build and work item tracking.

Announcing Ask Octopus Video Series

Once a week a few of us will gather to talk about some of the most interesting questions we have gotten over the past week and how we went about solving them.

Java CI/CD: From local build to Jenkins Continuous Integration

Learn how to build a Docker image with a central CI server.
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Documentation

Migrating data from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Information on how to migrate your data from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS.

Upgrading from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.6.5 to 2018.10 LTS

Manual upgrade

Information on how to manually upgrade to Octopus 2018.10 LTS from Octopus 2.6.5.

Upgrade with a new server instance

Information on how to upgrade from Octopus 2.6.5 to a new Octopus instance.

In place upgrade (Install Over 2.6.5)

Information on how to do an in-place upgrade to Octopus 2018.10 LTS from Octopus 2.6.5.

Upgrading old versions of Octopus

Everything you need to know to upgrade an older version of Octopus to a modern version.

Troubleshooting

Solutions to common problems when upgrading to Octopus 2018.10 LTS from Octopus 2.6.

Linux targets

Configuring Linux servers as deployment targets in Octopus.

Minimize the data-migration time

Tips to minimize the time taken to migrate your data from Octopus 2.6 to 2018.10 LTS

Let's Encrypt integration

Octopus can integrate with Let's Encrypt to setup and automatically renew the Octopus Portal SSL certificate.

Configuring target machine

This guide describes how to configure your target machine running Linux to be used in Octopus deployments.

Installation

How to install the Octopus Server.

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