There are many ways the application behaviour will change when being promoted from one stage to another stage during a continuous delivery cycle based on the different configuration values and application setup. In order to make this process very easy and simple, In octopus Deploy you have the concepts of Variable Scoping and Variable Sets.… Read More Part 6 : Octopus Deploy Configuration variable Scope Scenarios
In the Last Post we have seen how to use the Octopus for windows Service deployments and you might have noticed how easy it was, Tools/resources required: Visual Studio 2013 Azure web application (created and available) Source code repository (In this case, we have our sample solution in the github) If you are reading this… Read More Part 4: Continuous Delivery of Azure websites using OctopusDeploy and Teamcity
Always we talk about code fast , ship fast and continuous delivery/continuous integration. At the same time we need to have attention around security to certain level. Hence this post. There are lot of ways and many blog posts exists to explain the scenario of how to implement. But this is how I have implemented… Read More How to Secure Azure hosted websites and Disallow/redirect traffic on *.azurewebsites.net by configuring custom domain.
Most of the time in many organisation people are involved in shipping the code faster into various environments like Test, UAT, Staging and Production. After a while many hit the point of bottle neck in deploying the database changes where you cannot delivery continuously. I have been looking for a good product which can enable… Read More Part 5: Continuous Delivery of SQL Server database by Source controlling in Git (Using Red-gate Tools, TeamCity and OctopusDeploy)
In the Last Post we have seen how to use the Octopus for Cloud Service deployments, now in this post its all about build , deploy and promote windows services by using octopus deploy without any bespoke scripts. Tools/resources required: Visual Studio 2013 Windows server 2012 (Either in cloud or on premise) Sourcecode repository (In… Read More Part 3: How to Implement Continuous Delivery for Windows Services Using Octopus and Teamcity