Author: ianpaullin
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Thoughts on Octopus Deploy 2.6
Now that Octopus Deploy 2.6 was just released, I feel I can publish some of my opinions on it. I installed the pre-release on my Azure instance weeks ago just before Thanksgiving and I’ve just upgraded to the official release (2.6.0.778). Even though 2.6 is a minor update, it is a game changer. Changes listed on Octopus Deploy 2.6…
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Chicago ALM Users Group – Agile Metrics
Yesterday night I attended the Chicago ALM Users Group session on Agile Metrics, given by Doc Norton. It was a very interesting topic and a great presentation altogether. Rather than reiterate the subject itself, you can view a video that Doc has available on his blog. A big thank you to Angela Dugan (blog) for organizing the event and to…
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Backing up projects on Octopus Tentacles? Think twice
I’ve noticed many of our Octopus teams use the File System – Backup Directory step template from the library to implement a backup step. Unfortunately, I’ve seen minimal prudence from said teams implementing backups. Many of these teams simply backup their project across most if not all of their environments while having no rollback steps whatsoever. Don’t get me wrong,…
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Strange NuGet server HTTP 500 error
Our Octopus user base has grown to a very large audience, internally speaking of course. Over the past few weeks we’ve also had to deal with our NuGet server running out of storage (so much for SCOM alerts). We keep our NuGet feeds off of the Octopus server as Octopus has one giant feed for…
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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…
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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…
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Schedule
The past few weeks have been extremely busy for me. I had hoped to post an article or two over the past few weeks but there was too much to manage and I’ve had to push my posts to the side for the interim. This weekend, I tried moving the blog to another hosting service…
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Microsoft 'Fitness' Band released
Microsoft announced a new product that I don’t believe anyone was fully aware that was coming – a fitness tracker. By the looks of it, it appears to be a better than most of these smart watches that happen to do health monitoring. In Microsoft’s “Band” product (not sure about whether the name is good…
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OctoPack error: Could not find a part of the path
If you’re managing numerous Octopus projects across an enterprise, you’re bound to run into an error you’ve never seen before. Most frequently for us, that comes with the build process. Users often confuse (by no fault of their own) the source of the error being the OctoPack but in my experience, the OctoPack in and of itself…
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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…