December 2014 – Ian Paullin

December 29, 2014

SDC Presentation – Intro to Octopus Deploy

On Sunday, January 11th 2015 at 1:00pm, I’ll be presenting Octopus Deploy at the Software Development Community (SDC) in Naperville, Illinois. I’ve attended a few of the SDC meetings and it’s a solid crowd. There have been interesting topics presented before so I hope I can make Octopus as interesting to others as it is to me. Since this is an introductory presentation,...

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December 19, 2014

Thoughts on Octopus Deploy 2.6

Now that Octopus Deploy 2.6 was just released, I feel I can publish some of my opinions on it. I installed the pre-release on my Azure instance weeks ago just before Thanksgiving and I’ve just upgraded to the official release (2.6.0.778). Even though 2.6 is a minor update, it is a game changer. Changes listed on Octopus Deploy 2.6 are: Lifecycles to control promotion...

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December 18, 2014

Chicago ALM Users Group – Agile Metrics

Yesterday night I attended the Chicago ALM Users Group session on Agile Metrics, given by Doc Norton. It was a very interesting topic and a great presentation altogether. Rather than reiterate the subject itself, you can view a video that Doc has available on his blog. A big thank you to Angela Dugan (blog) for organizing the event and to Polaris Solutions for sponsoring. Another...

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December 17, 2014

Backing up projects on Octopus Tentacles? Think twice

I’ve noticed many of our Octopus teams use the File System – Backup Directory step template from the library to implement a backup step. Unfortunately, I’ve seen minimal prudence from said teams implementing backups. Many of these teams simply backup their project across most if not all of their environments while having no rollback steps whatsoever. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Octopus Step...

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December 5, 2014

Strange NuGet server HTTP 500 error

Our Octopus user base has grown to a very large audience, internally speaking of course. Over the past few weeks we’ve also had to deal with our NuGet server running out of storage (so much for SCOM alerts). We keep our NuGet feeds off of the Octopus server as Octopus has one giant feed for all, but we like to...

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December 1, 2014

Initial thoughts on Octopus Deploy 3.0 – from RavenDB back to SQL Server

This is pretty big news for any Octopus Deploy users. Paul Stovell has hinted a return back to SQL Server over the past few months in blog posts and uservoice forum comments, but from the public view, it’s all speculation and rumor until otherwise official. This weekend, Octopus made it official – version 3.0, they’re moving from RavenDB back to SQL...

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