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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.

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.

Selenium series: Firefox debugging tricks

In this post, we learn some tricks to debugging Firefox JavaScript stack traces.

Octopus August Release 3.16

This month's release includes Mono-less deployments to Linux and Mac, updated ScriptCS support, bug fixes and more.

5 Remote Desktop Alternatives

Five alternative Remote Desktop tools

SNI in Tomcat

SNI allows Tomcat to respond with multiple HTTPS certificates on on single port. This blog post looks at how to configure SNI.

Containers - what you need to get started

A high-level look at what you need to get started with containerization.

Packaging for .NETCore, on .NETCore, with Octopus

Using Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications on .NETCore

Selenium series: Environment specific handling

In this post, we learn how to customize WebDriver operations based on the target environment.

Selenium series: What is WebDriver and Selenium?

Learn what the terms WebDriver and Selenium refer to.

Configuring the web.xml file during deployment

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

How to deploy to MuleSoft Runtime using Octopus Deploy

Learn how to deploy a MuleSoft API to a MuleSoft Runtime.

Selenium series: running tests against BrowserStack

In this post, we learn how to run tests against the BrowserStack service.

Selenium series: The first WebDriver test

In this post, we create the first WebDriver tests against Chrome and Firefox.

Continuous Delivery for .NET Core using Octopus Deploy and Bitbucket Pipelines

Learn how to use Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines to automatically build, test and deploy .NET core apps on code commits using Octopus Deploy

Arquillian for Infrastructure Testing

Arquillian's ability to spin up real application servers and integrate them with unit tests makes it a powerful solution for infrastructure testing.

Creating an RDS instance with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to create an RDS instance with this sample CloudFormation template.

Top 8 container registries

There are many container registry services, suitable for all different kinds of teams. We look at the top 8 and why you might consider them.

Deploying a Lambda with CloudFormation

As part of our Runbooks series, learn how to deploy a Lambda with this sample CloudFormation template.

Octopus Workflow Builder feedback

Request for feedback on the early release of a workflow builder.

At the helm with Shipra Mahindra

A series where we chat to people at Octopus about their role, what they’re working on to improve the product, and more. Hear from Shipra Mahindra, Senior Product Manager.
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Documentation

SSH target requirements

Requirements for using SSH deployment targets with Octopus.

SSH target

Configuring Linux servers as SSH deployment targets in Octopus.

Install autocomplete

Install a shell auto-complete script into your shell profile, if they aren't already there. Supports pwsh, zsh, bash & powershell.

The Octopus Command Line (CLI)

The Octopus CLI (octo) is the Octopus command line tool that builds on top of the Octopus REST API.

Troubleshooting build server integrations

General guide to troubleshoot integrations between build servers such as TeamCity or Azure DevOps with Octopus Deploy

CLI

The all-new Octopus CLI

Workers

External workers are machines that can execute steps that don't need to be performed on the Octopus Server or deployment targets.

Approvals

Octopus Deploy can integrate with supported ITSM tools for deployment control using Change Request approvals

ServiceNow Integration

Octopus Deploy can integrate with your ServiceNow instance for deployment control using Change Request approvals

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