Monthly Archive: May, 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...

Octo.exe now supports importing/exporting of projects and releases

The Octopus Deploy team just announced the importing and exporting of projects and releases in the octo.exe tool. This capability his huge, especially for any organizations with multiple Octopus Deploy servers. For my current project, we’re just beginning to talk about moving projects and releases from our staging server to production and before this update the only way was by hand. This...

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...

Octopus Deploy 2.4.2 pre-release comments

Yesterday, the Octopus Deploy team released version 2.4.2 (pre-release). Loaded with new features, this release is really worth while. Here’s the Octopus Deploy blog post about the new 2.4 changes. From their release notes, new features include: Library tab – finally, variable sets are now accessible to teams whereas previously they were only available to admins on the configuration tab...