Ian Paullin – Page 5 – DevOps guy in .NET app arch clothing

July 14, 2015

From the frontline: Upgrading the Octopus Deploy Server

Note: I’ve had this post ready for months but completely forgot about it. It’s about four months out of date, but still interesting so I’ve decided to post it anyway. We’ve been planning on upgrading for months (since late 2014), but with a jam packed schedule it was difficult to fit in. On top of that, we weren’t sure which...

Octopus Deploy/RavenDB/Tip Comments: 0

July 10, 2015

Octo.exe – exporting/importing project pitfalls

Over a year ago, I mentioned that the Octo.exe supports the ability to export a project from one server to another server. This feature last year needed a lot of work and was a bit difficult to understand, but at the time I didn’t have a pressing need for it. After working with it extensively over the past couple of weeks, I’m...

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July 2, 2015

Variables are your friend

To truly harness and appreciate the power and elegance of Octopus Deploy, you need to use variables. Variables are not a foreign concept to programmers, but within Octopus there are a few different types of variables available which may cause a little confusion. We’ll cover all these different types of variables in this deep dive, how to wield variables to your advantage and best...

Octopus Deploy Comments: 3

June 14, 2015

Chicago Code Camp 2015

Great turnout this year at the Chicago Code Camp. I saw a few familiar people and met some interesting new people as well. My presentation was going well right up to the point of where my wireless connection within the room dropped like a rock. Other people offered their remote hotspots but alas, it wasn’t meant to be. So no...

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June 13, 2015

Delayed articles and projects

Work has been extremely busy since mid-February and with my first baby born several weeks ago on May 20th, my time has been dwindling down to next to nothing. As I have numerous deep dives and articles scheduled, things are really pilling up. I’m on paternity leave currently but as I’ve learned, the term ‘parenthood’ is really a synonym for futility. That...

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April 21, 2015

SDC – "The S.O.L.I.D. Principles of OO and Agile Design" by Uncle Bob Martin

I’ve never seen Uncle Bob Martin before, but word of his presentations are nothing but exemplary. Last week on Wednesday the 15th, I attended Uncle Bob Martin’s presentation on The SOLID Priciples of OO and Agile Design at the Software Developers Community. There are speakers and then there are “Bob Martin”-level speakers. Engaging, intriguing and entertaining all-in-one. No slides. No demo....

Conferences and Meetups/Design/Programming/Software Development Community Comments: 0

March 24, 2015

Chicago Code Camp 2015 – Octopus Ahoy!

I’ll be talking about Octopus Deploy at this year’s Chicago Code Camp on Saturday, April 18th at the Illinois Institute of Technology (starts at 8a to 5p). You can view all sessions here. I attended last year’s camp and it was really great. Lots of interesting speakers and topics. I’ll be doing an intro to Octopus Deploy session (surprise, surprise). I always try to...

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February 27, 2015

The Octo.exe – your utility knife for automation

If you’ve started using Octopus Deploy and want to fully maximize it’s potential via automation but you don’t know where to start, you need to begin investigating the Octo.exe. The Octo.exe is a neat little utility that allows you, through the command-line (and by extension, PowerShell) to interact with your Octopus Server without using the web interface. There’s a number of...

Continuous Deployment/Octopus Deploy Comments: 6

February 25, 2015

Octopus Deploy 3.0 details emerge

For months, I’ve been anticipating Octopus Deploy 3.0. The details have been slowly emerging over the past few months dating back to late November 2014 from several blog posts from the Octopus team. Each post has revealed some detail about the upcoming changes and technical details behind 3.0. Looking back on all the blog posts, I found four that explicitly state Octopus...

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February 20, 2015

Chicago ALM User Group – Infrastructure as Code and Automation with Chef and Azure

On Wednesday earlier this week, I attended the Chicago ALM User Group meeting on Chef and Azure by Matt Stratton. It was a really good presentation on not only Chef and infrastructure automation but also DevOps as well. For quite sometime, I’ve been on the fence about what tool to use to automate my virtual machine guests on my home...

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