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July 7, 2014

Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago ALM User’s Group (again) on July 23rd

I’ll be presenting Octopus Deploy again, this time in the AON building in downtown Chicago. For more information, check out Angela Dugan’s post here: http://www.tfswhisperer.com/post/2014/06/29/Join-The-Chicago-ALM-User-Group-on-Wednesday-July-23-to-Talk-About-Octopus-Deploy

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June 27, 2014

Octopus Deploy Series Conclusion

Over the past few months, I’ve tried to show how Octopus Deploy works, how the design choices that the Octopus team made affect you and why these choices are beneficial. In retrospect, deployments should have evolved in parallel to the technology at hand, but history does not support that thesis. Deployments can be unique and complex and considering the wide range...

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June 3, 2014

Octopus Deployment Basics

For the past few months, I’ve been analyzing Octopus Deploy in terms of it’s components, architectural design and benefits of said design decisions. In this article, we’re going to bring everything together to see the sum of all the parts. Everything starts with NuGet. Octopus works with your applications as NuGet packages and distributes them to the appropriate server. PowerShell is...

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May 21, 2014

Minor change in plans for Octopus Deploy Series

My current Octopus Deploy Series so far has been more focused at a high/conceptual level. They’ve been a lot of fun to write and to piece together how Octopus’s components and mechanisms complement one another for both the developers’ and users’ benefit. I originally intended to do a deeper dive into Octopus Deploy and I think my initial estimates of time were underestimated. I think...

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May 21, 2014

Automating Deployments with Octopus Deploy Presentation

Forgive me for my misuse of Internet memes to make points with the crowd. 🙂 [gview file=”/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Automating-Deployments-with-Octopus-Deploy-Final-20140521.pptx”]

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May 21, 2014

Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago ALM User's Group

Thanks to Angela Dugan and Jim Szubryt for letting me present Octopus Deploy to the Chicago ALM User’s Group! Some great questions were asked and I may have to devote some time to answering repeatedly asked questions from all the presentations I’ve been doing. I’ll be uploading slides from the presentation tonight.

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May 20, 2014

Octopus Deploy and NuGet

At this point, we’ve taken a high-level perspective as to the technologies that Octopus Deploy utilizes. One of the pillars of Octopus Deploy is NuGet. In my opinion, without NuGet, Octopus Deploy could not exist. What is NuGet? In a nutshell NuGet is an open source package management system for .NET. It allows for the downloading and installation of any files into a...

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May 8, 2014

Octopus Deploy and NancyFX

It’s been a few weeks since the last article on RavenDB. So today, moving forward on the Octopus Deploy series, we’re going to talk about NancyFX. Octopus Deploy switched from IIS to NancyFX for it’s internal web host for their 2.0+ version. Why the switch from IIS? Paul gives his thoughts on the switch in his blog post titled Designing the Octopus Deploy 2.0 HTTP API....

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May 6, 2014

Step template gallery coming to Octopus Deploy

On a webinar call with Paul Stovell today, one of Octopus Deploy’s new step template feature will have a public gallery to share common step templates with the community. It’s going to be a very cool, very useful and a most welcome feature to be added to Octopus Deploy! The details haven’t been published yet to my knowledge, but what this...

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May 4, 2014

Can you deploy specifically to Windows XP machines in Octopus Deploy?

I was asked at the CNUG meetup last month on Octopus Deploy on how to target Windows XP machines. At first, I didn’t have a good answer. I thought at the time the best way was to group all the Windows XP machines in an environment. After that presentation, it bugged me a little afterwards that I didn’t mention Roles. First off, I’m not...

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Category: ALM

Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago ALM User’s Group (again) on July 23rd

Octopus Deploy Series Conclusion

Octopus Deployment Basics

Minor change in plans for Octopus Deploy Series

Automating Deployments with Octopus Deploy Presentation

Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago ALM User's Group

Octopus Deploy and NuGet

Octopus Deploy and NancyFX

Step template gallery coming to Octopus Deploy

Can you deploy specifically to Windows XP machines in Octopus Deploy?