Category: Octopus Deploy
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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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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?…
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Encore presentation on Octopus Deploy for Chicago ALM Users Group
I had another Octopus Deploy presentation today in Chicago for the Chicago ALM Users Group. Big thanks to Angela Dugan (@OakParkGirl) for letting me ramble on for Octopus for well over the time alloted. Had some good questions from audience members and interaction as well. I tried changing some things around in the presentation and adding…
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OctoPack error: Cannot add part for the specified URI because it is already in the package
Recently, I had an issue with a project team’s TFS build and the OctoPack. Within the TFS log, I found this error: OctoPack error OCTONUGET: Cannot add part for the specified URI because it is already in the package. After some google-fu, I found a helpful post on StackOverflow. Short answer: you have to remove any duplicate references…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…