Category: ALM
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Octopus Deploy and RavenDB
Octopus Deploy uses RavenDB (Wikipedia) as it’s database. Many Windows applications typically fall onto the SQL Server platform for a database but Octopus Deploy went in a different direction. Paul Stovell, the author of Octopus Deploy, addresses why he chose RavenDB over SQL Server and other variants on the Octopus Deploy blog post: How Octopus uses RavenDB. Part of my…
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Configuring Octopus Deploy and Tentacles
Installing Octopus Deploy is a fairly trivial task. Updating Octopus Deploy is a slightly different story, but I’ll address that in another article. TL;DR I’m diving into registering tentacles and servers as that’s the most challenging part in an Octopus Deploy installation if you’re unfamiliar with the terrain. I’ll address some possible issues that may crop up…
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Intro to Octopus Deploy
I’m kicking off my Octopus Deploy series with my presentation on Octopus Deploy for the Chicago .NET Users Group tonight. It was a great meeting and I think a lot of people got a lot of good information on Octopus Deploy. Programming in the .NET world has made remarkable strides over the past ten years.…
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Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago .NET Users Group
I had the privilege presenting Octopus Deploy at the Chicago .NET Users Group in Downer’s Grove tonight. Avanade sponsored the event and some of my colleagues were able to make it. Overall, I thought it went pretty well. I managed to cover a lot in the demo and slides. Thanks to Keith Franklin and everyone…
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Octopus Deploy Series
I’m currently outlining a series of articles on Octopus Deploy. I’d like to think of it as another user manual but I digress. I may add more topics but for now this is what I intend to publish in the upcoming weeks. Intro to Octopus Deploy (2014-04-07) Installation (Server and Tentacles) Configuration (Server and Tentacles) Configuring Octopus…
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Back on track
It’s been quite a while since my last post. Too much has been going on in my life to divulge at the moment so onward to the more interesting things happening right now. For the past five months, I’ve been fortunate to work along side Jim Szubyrt at Accenture for their TFS Deployment Automation project.…
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CNUG – TFS 2012/13
Tonight I attended the Chicago .NET Users Group (CNUG) out in Downers Grove. The presenter was Jim Szubryt whom I work with at Accenture on a pilot project for automated deployment (or continuous deployment) at Accenture. It was a real interesting discussion about TFS. A lot people had questions on the TFS cloud service from…