Author: ianpaullin
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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…
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Including solution level files in your NuGet package
Rarely, if ever, does the OctoPack or for that matter NuGet.exe, miss a file or files that teams are looking to have in the NuGet package. Earlier this week I was helping a team with their NuGet package and they wanted to include files that were inside a folder at the solution level, not within a project folder. Normally, it’s not…
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Seattle. Is. Awesome.
For full disclosure, I am a Seahawks fan so I admit my bias. That said, one of the big reasons I love Seattle is the seafood. Well, “glorious” seafood would be more accurate. Let’s start with a recap of the day. The Seattle Code Camp was a lot of fun. It was a good sized crowd, I believe…
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Seattle Bound
This weekend I’ll be attending the Seattle Code Camp to present Octopus Deploy. While I’ve done several presentations before, I’m going to change the presentation by removing a lot of technical minutia and focusing in on the benefits, some configuration and a seamless deployment demo (as I’ve learned from prior experience). Each demo that I’ve…
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Leveraging Server Roles
This is the first article of my Octopus Deploy Deep Dive Series. I’m looking to dive into specifics within Octopus Deploy. There’s lots to cover and today were going to dive into Machine Roles or just plain old Roles. Octopus has roles for team permissions so to avoid confusion for this article, the context of roles…
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Update
August is usually a rough month for me. It’s the last month of the fiscal year at work so it’s review time. I’ve also had a nasty cold/infection/plague for the past four days. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve last posted anything, but I’ve got quite a bit in the works regarding Octopus articles. In addition…
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Demo snafu and lessons learned
Last week I had an encore presentation of Octopus Deploy to the Chicago ALM Users Group. It was a good crowd who asked a lot of good questions and seemed sincerely interested in Octopus Deploy and what value it could deliver for them. My slides ran long as I’ve found out that I really re-iterate too…
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Does Octopus version your deployment process?
I was asked an interesting question at the Chicago ALM User’s Group tonight. I can’t recall the exact question, but the essence of it was, “does Octopus version your deployment process?” I meant to answer the question but I got side-tracked with another question. So here’s my post to amend that unanswered question. Short answer?…