Author: ianpaullin

July 23, 2020

Where have I been?

It’s been nearly two years since my last post. In that time, family, work, studying for certifications and my own projects took all my free time for blogging. COVID has not helped matters either – no I don’t have it but having two kids at home every day is well, challenging. That said, my DevOps engineering team and I did...

Categories Azure DevOps Comments: 0

November 5, 2018

Fun with PowerShell: where did I put that file?

Waaaaaaay back in mid-March of this year, I made a PowerShell script file that I had left on a server somewhere. Now, this is admittedly a bad practice because you should have it stored somewhere that you know of and it needs to be in some sort of source control. I, while living dangerously, thought nothing of it as I...

Categories Automation/PowerShell Comments: 0

December 30, 2017

Octopus 4.0 Review

Octopus 4.0 (v4.0.4) was officially released as non-release candidate on Tuesday, November 21st 2017. Since then, Octopus has already pushed forward to v4.1 since and are at v4.1.5 as of last week on Wednesday, December 20th. I’ve been using Octopus Deploy since the early version 2.1 days so to have 4.0 (or rather 4.1) now released to the masses, I’m...

Categories Octopus Deploy/Opinion Comments: 0

November 27, 2017

RFC Remote Release Promotions

Disclaimer: this is an old post I meant to publish back in late May 2017. Octopus is on a roll of sorts, trying to come up with new features to meet customers desires from UserVoice. The latest RFC for Remote Release Promotions is one of those features that you either need or don’t. I see no middle-ground with this feature,...

Categories Octopus Deploy/Request For Comment (RFC) Comments: 0

November 22, 2017

Finding PowerShell Script Modules within the Octopus API

I use the Octopus API on a regular basis so I’m fairly familiar with the layout. We have an upcoming project that will inject a deployment step in a process (at the very end) and call a custom script module within Octopus to check and validate security settings within web servers as part of the deployment process. Since we have...

Categories Octopus Deploy/Tip Comments: 0

November 21, 2017

A New Leaf

I’ve been quiet on blogging for some time now. Work keeps me too busy to really sit down and write something useful – or worse I start working on a post, forget about it, and keep updating it over and over and never publish it. So, I’ve decided to actively get back into blogging and started by kicking things off...

Categories Announcement Comments: 0

May 18, 2017

RFC Octopus Data Center Manager

I’ve been using Octopus Deploy since early 2014. Around version 2.2 or 2.3 is when I started investigating Octopus and then implementing it in an enterprise scale environment. It’s been over a three year long journey for myself. A ton of changes have been made to Octopus during that time and it’s not without a sense of appreciation and respect that...

Categories ALM/Continuous Deployment/DevOps/Octopus Deploy/Request For Comment (RFC) Comments: 0

September 1, 2016

ThatConference 2016 – Microservices Minus the Hype: How to Build and Why

For my first session on Microservices, Mark Heckler (@mkheck) was delivering the presentation. I’ve never directly built or worked with microservices but I believe my future projects will involve microservices in one form or another – and preferably sooner rather than later. I felt compelled to visit this topic as I’ve always thought of microservices as SOA but much smaller in...

Categories Microservices/Software Architecture/ThatConference Comments: 0

August 12, 2016

ThatConference 2016 Wrap Up

It’s been a real fun experience so far at ThatConference. This is my first time and while I’m pretty excited by all the topics/presentations, I also did an Open Space session on Wednesday on Octopus Deploy & deployment automation. This is totally different from the notion of a presentation. An Open Space session seems more like an open forum for discussion on a...

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August 8, 2016

ThatConference, deep dives and more

It’s been way overdue since my last post but rest assured, things are happening behind the scenes. First and foremost, I am in attendance ThatConference! I’m very excited to go this year as I’ve read about it for the past two years. There are quite a few sessions just jam packed over three days and I’ll be posting on which sessions...

Categories Announcement/Conferences and Meetups/ThatConference Comments: 0