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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.Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
Octopus 3.4 introduces support for Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.Installing Tentacles with DSC in AWS CloudFormation templates
Learn how to configure a target work Worker Tentacle when creating a new EC2 instance with CloudFormation.Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI
Enable tab completion for the Octopus CLI today! We'll also dive into how shell completion works in some popular shell environments.Domain does DevOps
Domain.com.au recently embraced DevOps. They use Octopus Deploy to deploy to AWS.Reprioritizing the task queue
Learn about our new feature that lets you reprioritize the task queue in Octopus.Deploying to Google App Engine
Learn how to deploy a compiled application to Google App Engine.Thoughts from my User Experience Journey
Thoughts and takeaways from my recent journey with the Onboarding team, diving further into user-experience.Octostache Update - JSON, Indexing, Formatting and Dates
New changes required to Octostache to support Docker provided an opportunity to provide some additionally requested featuresCertificates Feature
Announcing the release of the Certificates Feature in Octopus DeployHow SaaS tenanted deployments would look without automation
We explore how difficult SaaS tenanted deployments would be if we didn't have automation.Deploying to Google Cloud Functions
Learn how to deploy functions to the Google Cloud Platform.Octopus Deploy 4.0 - Infrastructure Redesign
The environments are has been revamped into a new Infrastructure area for our upcoming Octopus 4.0 release.Getting started with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
How to get started using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)Automating support emails with Octopus Runbooks
You can use Octopus Runbooks to automate delivery of important information to your support teams when things go wrong. This post explains how.Contributing a step template to the Octopus Deploy Community Library
Learn how to submit a custom step template to the Octopus Deploy Community LibraryCommon deployment patterns and how to use them in Octopus
Deployment patterns are important to any development pipeline. This post looks at some common deployment patterns and explains how to set them up in Octopus.Using dynamic build agents to automate scaling in Jenkins
With some setup, Jenkins can automatically react to your processing needs, creating extra nodes to manage processes. This post explains 2 setup methods.Deploying a Node.js application with Octopus Deploy
Learn how to use Octopus Deploy to deploy an application written in NodeJS with a MongoDB back-end.Octopus June Release 2018.6
Octopus 2018.6 is building the foundation for some excellent new features coming soon!How we work. Some recent lessons
Some lessons we've learned in the last few months that change the way we work. Plus tools for a distributed team
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Octopus versioning scheme
Details of the versioning scheme used by Docker feedsInstall autocomplete
Install a shell auto-complete script into your shell profile, if they aren't already there. Supports pwsh, zsh, bash & powershell.Credits
Octopus is made possible thanks to many great third-party products.IIS Websites and application pools
Octopus has built-in support for configuring IIS web sites, applications and virtual directories.The Octopus Command Line (CLI)
The Octopus CLI (octo) is the Octopus command line tool that builds on top of the Octopus REST API.MySQL flyway deployment
How to do MySQL database deployments with Flyway.Deploy Amazon ECS Service
Deploy a service to an Amazon ECS cluster.Variable filters
Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.Can't find what you are looking for? You can also search our support forum.