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...

From the frontline: CPU utilization issue on Windows Server

In early August of this year, our staging and production Octopus servers as well as our NuGet server, started to suffer from a bizarre, non-stop, repeating spikes in CPU utilization. These spikes were occurring so frequently every minute that we had service interruption/downtime as the CPU utilization was at 99% for ten to fifteen consecutive minutes at times. Since we first noticed it in mid-August, we had been investigating independently and...

SDC Presentation – FermiLab Software Development

On Sunday, October 5th, I attended the Software Development Community’s (SDC) presentation on software development at FermiLab, presented by Dr. James Amundson. It was a fascinating look into the world of high performance computing and clustering. It’s my first time attending SDC which there was a good sized crowd and everyone seemed genuinely interested in the topic at hand and there were many...

Users, Teams, User Roles and Permissions

In this post of our Octopus Deep Dive Series, we’re covering users, teams and user roles. I’ve learned that out of all the topics within Octopus Deploy, user management and permissions can be daunting depending on how customized you want your configuration. It took me some time to figure out how best to leverage security for a large number of teams using one customized security model. With...