Monthly Archive: April, 2014

Octopus Deploy and RavenDB

Octopus Deploy uses RavenDB (Wikipedia) as it’s database. Many Windows applications typically fall onto the SQL Server platform for a database but Octopus Deploy went in a different direction. Paul Stovell, the author of Octopus Deploy, addresses why he chose RavenDB over SQL Server and other variants on the Octopus Deploy blog post: How Octopus uses RavenDB. Part of my article is rehashing what Paul...

Configuring Octopus Deploy and Tentacles

Installing Octopus Deploy is a fairly trivial task. Updating Octopus Deploy is a slightly different story, but I’ll address that in another article. TL;DR I’m diving into registering tentacles and servers as that’s the most challenging part in an Octopus Deploy installation if you’re unfamiliar with the terrain. I’ll address some possible issues that may crop up and how to avoid them. I’m...

Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago .NET Users Group

I had the privilege presenting Octopus Deploy at the Chicago .NET Users Group in Downer’s Grove tonight. Avanade sponsored the event and some of my colleagues were able to make it. Overall, I thought it went pretty well. I managed to cover a lot in the demo and slides. Thanks to Keith Franklin and everyone for attending. Hope you enjoyed...

Octopus Deploy Series

I’m currently outlining a series of articles on Octopus Deploy. I’d like to think of it as another user manual but I digress. I may add more topics but for now this is what I intend to publish in the upcoming weeks. Intro to Octopus Deploy (2014-04-07) Installation (Server and Tentacles) Configuration (Server and Tentacles) Configuring Octopus Deploy and Tentacles (2014-04-18) Octopus Deploy...