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At the helm with Harsh Sabikhi

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 Harsh Sabikhi, Senior Vice President, Revenue.

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 March Release 2018.3

What's new in Octopus 2018.3

Creating EC2 instance in AWS with CloudFormation

Learn how to create Windows and Linux EC2 instances in AWS with example CloudFormation templates

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.

Beyond Hello World: Containerize a real-world web application

This post demonstrates how to containerize a real-world .NET Core web application with web services and databases.

Octopus plugin for Jira - Better visibility for your software pipeline

Our new Octopus Deploy plugin for Jira makes it easy to plan, track and ship software with better end-to-end visibility of your software pipeline.

Using the HTTPd Docker image

A detailed look at how to use the HTTPd web server with Docker.

Using the NGINX Docker image

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

SHA1 "Shattered" Collision

How recent SHA1 collision attack discoveries impact Octopus, and PowerShell scripts to detect if you use SHA1 certificates

SSH into a Kubernetes cluster

Learn how to set up a SSH bastion host in your Kubernetes cluster.

Deploying to Google Cloud Run

Learn how to deploy a container to the Google Cloud Run service.

Automated database deployment process: case study

This article walks through the steps I used to help design an automated database deployment process.

Integrating OAuth with Kubernetes

Integrating Google OAuth into a Kubernetes cluster.

The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment

Why and how your should automate your database deployments

Deploy your first container to Kubernetes via Octopus

Learn how to perform your first container deployment

Database Feature Branch Deployments

Standing up a sandbox for feature branches is a common scenario. This article aims to solve that for databases.

Licensing and support/maintenance changes

Licensing and support/maintenance changes for Octopus 2.0

Introducing Google Cloud Platform integration for Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy now includes integration for Google Cloud Platform including built-in accounts, gcloud scripts, Terraform and Kubernetes.
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Documentation

Variable filters

Octopus variable substitutions support *filters* to correctly encode values for a variety of target file types.

Polling Tentacles over WebSockets

Octopus Polling Tentacles open a connection to the Octopus Server over WebSockets to ask what to do.

Use IIS as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up IIS 7 (or later) as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Use NGINX as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Partition Octopus with Spaces

Guidelines and recommendations for configuring spaces in Octopus Deploy.

Find unused projects

An example script that will find any project that hasn't had a release created in the previous days

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