Simple Steps : Install TeamCity 10 with Azure SQL Database (V12)

Creating Azure SQL Database Note: Make sure Collation Settings are SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS For security reasons, we have the SQL Azure Database with Auditing & Threat detection along with Transparent Data Encryption. Installing TeamCity Keep all the defaults in here. Note running as a specific user needs logon as service privilage Same Applies for the TeamCity Agent… Read More Simple Steps : Install TeamCity 10 with Azure SQL Database (V12)

Continuous Delivery – ASP.Net Core web applications using Visual Studio Team Services and Octopus Deploy Hosted in Azure

This article should help you get started with Continuous delivery pipeline using Visual Studio Team Services and Octopus Deploy. This blog post came out after playing with ASP.Net Core applications. To get it working it was bit fiddly but towards the end I got it working. Building applications and Deploying application in azure is getting… Read More Continuous Delivery – ASP.Net Core web applications using Visual Studio Team Services and Octopus Deploy Hosted in Azure

Redgate Tools – Enabling Continuous Delivery for Database Changes with Octopus Deploy and Teamcity

I have been recently working with various client around enabling and adopting devops practices within enterprise organisations. It’s interesting to see many people think it’s just code development team and operations have to work together. In reality there is a team who develop/maintain databases which needs to be highlighted to be part of these practices… Read More Redgate Tools – Enabling Continuous Delivery for Database Changes with Octopus Deploy and Teamcity

Enabling Continuous Delivery for Azure Cloud Service Projects (Web or Worker Role) Using TFS source control & TFS Build Agents with Octopus Deploy.

Last week I have written a blog post about how you can build in TFS and Deploy using the Octopus Deploy of various similar applications like ASP.NET web applications , API and windows services  . This week’s post is on how we can deploy Microsoft Azure Cloud Service projects using the same tools and the… Read More Enabling Continuous Delivery for Azure Cloud Service Projects (Web or Worker Role) Using TFS source control & TFS Build Agents with Octopus Deploy.

How to Upgrade Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Azure Cloud Service projects. (Continuous Integration Builds failing on TFS/ Teamcity Build Server)

Scenario : Recently I was involved in writing a cloud service have used Visual Studio 2013 to create a cloud service projects. I was able to use compile and run the application on the local development machine which is windows 7. Now, I have a need to run the Continuous Integration build on the TFS Build server.… Read More How to Upgrade Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Azure Cloud Service projects. (Continuous Integration Builds failing on TFS/ Teamcity Build Server)