Author: ianpaullin
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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From the frontline: Octopus Server performance tuning
We’ve been running Octopus Deploy since 2.0 back in January 2014 as part of our head-to-head battle royale with Release Management 2013. We decided on Octopus in February and our pilot testing started in late March early April with a handful of teams and users. Our shiny server (*ahem* virtual machine) with Octopus Deploy was chugging along and we all…
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The Zen of Deployment Automation
I work with a lot of users using our Octopus Deploy server on a daily basis. It seems that not all, but many of our users don’t fully grasp the philosophy behind automated deployments so I thought a rant was in order. If you’re using Octopus Deploy or even thinking about implementing it, Octopus is indeed a…
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Versioning in Octopus Deploy (Part I)
Versioning – NuGet and Octopus Deploy will force this issue of versioning on your projects and it’s in your best interest to give it some thought. Within Octopus, your releases are versioned as well as your NuGet packages however packages are versioned externally of Octopus, so some prudence will pay dividends down the road. I’ve found that one of the biggest…
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So long 2014 – onward to 2015
To put it mildly, 2014 was a busy year for me. Looking back on all my posts, perhaps I’ve been a little too deeply invested in the world of Octopus Deploy. It’s hard since I work with it every day for the past year so naturally it’s always on my mind. And while I have a lot…
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SDC Presentation – Intro to Octopus Deploy
On Sunday, January 11th 2015 at 1:00pm, I’ll be presenting Octopus Deploy at the Software Development Community (SDC) in Naperville, Illinois. I’ve attended a few of the SDC meetings and it’s a solid crowd. There have been interesting topics presented before so I hope I can make Octopus as interesting to others as it is to me. Since…