Ian Paullin – Page 9 – DevOps guy in .NET app arch clothing

July 9, 2014

A new look for the blog

Felt like the blog could use a visual tune up. So far, everything appears to be working well and looking good so we’ll see how it fares over time. Additionally, I’m gearing up for another presentation for the Chicago ALM Users Group on July 23rd. Afterwards, I’m going to start writing the Octopus Deploy Deep Dive Series where I go into depth on...

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July 7, 2014

Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago ALM User’s Group (again) on July 23rd

I’ll be presenting Octopus Deploy again, this time in the AON building in downtown Chicago. For more information, check out Angela Dugan’s post here: http://www.tfswhisperer.com/post/2014/06/29/Join-The-Chicago-ALM-User-Group-on-Wednesday-July-23-to-Talk-About-Octopus-Deploy

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June 27, 2014

Octopus Deploy Series Conclusion

Over the past few months, I’ve tried to show how Octopus Deploy works, how the design choices that the Octopus team made affect you and why these choices are beneficial. In retrospect, deployments should have evolved in parallel to the technology at hand, but history does not support that thesis. Deployments can be unique and complex and considering the wide range...

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June 3, 2014

Octopus Deployment Basics

For the past few months, I’ve been analyzing Octopus Deploy in terms of it’s components, architectural design and benefits of said design decisions. In this article, we’re going to bring everything together to see the sum of all the parts. Everything starts with NuGet. Octopus works with your applications as NuGet packages and distributes them to the appropriate server. PowerShell is...

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May 21, 2014

Minor change in plans for Octopus Deploy Series

My current Octopus Deploy Series so far has been more focused at a high/conceptual level. They’ve been a lot of fun to write and to piece together how Octopus’s components and mechanisms complement one another for both the developers’ and users’ benefit. I originally intended to do a deeper dive into Octopus Deploy and I think my initial estimates of time were underestimated. I think...

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May 21, 2014

Automating Deployments with Octopus Deploy Presentation

Forgive me for my misuse of Internet memes to make points with the crowd. 🙂 [gview file=”/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Automating-Deployments-with-Octopus-Deploy-Final-20140521.pptx”]

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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 15, 2014

Octo.exe now supports importing/exporting of projects and releases

The Octopus Deploy team just announced the importing and exporting of projects and releases in the octo.exe tool. This capability his huge, especially for any organizations with multiple Octopus Deploy servers. For my current project, we’re just beginning to talk about moving projects and releases from our staging server to production and before this update the only way was by hand. This...

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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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