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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.

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

How we use SQL Server as a Document Store

18 months ago we switched from RavenDB to SQL Server, but we kept using SQL as if it were a document store. This post goes into some detail about how our database works.

What is shadow IT?

When we talk about Shadow IT, we're talking about IT resources that an organization doesn't have visibility on. Find out how this affects your business, and how runbooks can help.

Using the NGINX Docker image

Learn how to create Docker web apps based on the NGINX image.

Database deployment automation using Octopus and Redgate Deployment Suite for Oracle

Octopus Deploy supports many database tools. Follow along as we get a CI/CD pipeline built to deploy a database change to an Oracle Database

Deploy to Oracle Database using Octopus Deploy and Redgate

Octopus Deploy supports many database tools. Follow along as we get a CI/CD pipeline built to deploy a database change to an Oracle Database

Performing canary deployments in Kubernetes

Learn how to use the Voyager ingress controller to implement canary deployments in Kubernetes

Improvements to Adding a Deployment Target Experience and Interface

Learn about some recent UI changes around deployment targets and why we made them.

Providing environment specific configuration for JavaScript projects

Whether it's a React, Angular, or NodeJS application, you often need configuration to be supplied that differs from one environment to the next. The safest way to accomplish this is to make use of your deployment tooling.

Documentation

IIS Websites and application pools

Octopus has built-in support for configuring IIS web sites, applications and virtual directories.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry

How to add an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Registry as an Octopus feed

Enable web request logging

How to enable web request logging to help the Octopus team analyze usage patterns and detecting performance problems.

User roles

User roles are a critical part of the Octopus security model whereby they are assigned to Teams and they dictate what the members of those teams can do in Octopus.

Azure web apps

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments to Azure web apps.

Active Directory authentication

Octopus Deploy can use Windows credentials to identify users.

Docker Container Registry

A Docker Registry is treated in Octopus Deploy as a feed that supplies images that are run as containers on a Docker Engine host.

Deployment targets

How to configure deployment targets in Octopus

Azure targets

Configure your Azure infrastructure

Azure Cloud Service targets

Azure Cloud Service deployment targets allow you to reference existing classic Cloud Services in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Azure Service Fabric cluster targets

Azure Service Fabric Cluster deployment targets allow you to reference existing Service Fabric Cluster apps that are available in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Azure Web App targets

Azure Web App deployment targets allow you to reference existing Web Apps in your Azure subscription, that you can then reference by role during deployments.

Cloud regions

Cloud regions deployment targets allow steps to be executed multiple times to support deploying cloud applications in numerous geographic regions.

Dynamic infrastructure

Octopus resources created in cloud providers can also be modeled in Octopus using service messages and scripts, which form part of dynamic infrastructure.

Create Azure Service Principal account command

New-OctopusAzureServicePrincipalAccount allows you to create an Azure Service Principal account in Octopus from within a running deployment

Create Azure Cloud Service target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Cloud Service target

Create Azure Service Fabric target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Service Fabric target

Create Azure Web App target command

Cmdlet for creating an Azure Web App target

Create Kubernetes Target Command

Cmdlet for creating a Kubernetes target

Offline package drop

Offline package drop deployment targets allow you to deploy your applications in the most restricted security environments where Tentacles cannot be used.

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