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May 21, 2014

Automating Deployments with Octopus Deploy Presentation

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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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May 2, 2014

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...

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April 23, 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...

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April 18, 2014

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...

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April 16, 2014

Intro to Octopus Deploy

I’m kicking off my Octopus Deploy series with my presentation on Octopus Deploy for the Chicago .NET Users Group tonight. It was a great meeting and I think a lot of people got a lot of good information on Octopus Deploy. Programming in the .NET world has made remarkable strides over the past ten years. From frameworks like Entity Framework,...

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Ian Paullin

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