This very rarely happens in Octopus Deploy, but if something catastrophic happens you may find it useful. I discovered this when the SQL Database server that has the OctopusDeploy database on was switched off during a deployment. Due to the loss of connectivity, the deployment got stuck, and cancelling it caused the deployment to get […]
Although DataDog comes with a healthy selection of integrations, there is always going to be something custom that you want to monitor. This is why DogStatsd has been made available. DogStatsd is a small server that aggregates your custom app metrics. Let’s look at monitoring SQL Server Replication using DogStatsd and C#. DogStatsd runs on […]
If you clone a VM that has an existing Octopus Deploy tentacle running, you’ll find that you’ll have a problem with a thumbprint clash. All you need to do is generate a new thumprint using tentacle.exe. You can do this using a command window, or PowerShell… cd “c:\Program Files\Octopus Deploy\Tentacle” .\tentacle.exe new-certificate This command will […]
In the professional software development community, we use a disciplined approach to releasing our software. This is why many of us use tools such as Octopus Deploy to manage releases and deployments. Because this post is specifically about Octopus Deploy, I will assume that you understand why a code change should flow through a continuous […]
This is the process for sending a variable from Octopus Deploy, all the way down to a SQL script that is hidden inside a DacPac, which is being called from PowerShell, which is being executed by Octopus Deploy. I have covered the end-to-end process of how to package and deploy your Visual Studio database project […]
If you have a deployment in Octopus Deploy that contains multiple packages, and the deployment occurs automatically when one of those packages is updated; then the order you upload the packages matters. For example, if you have packages A, B, and C – and you upload them in that order: If you trigger based on […]
I don’t know if other industries experience this, but in software development it appears to be getting increasingly common. Pick a word or phrase, perform an in-depth critique of the word explaining why it shouldn’t be used, and attempt to coin a new phrase (over which you can be the creater and arbiter of all […]
This isn’t a “framework a” vs “framework b” post. When performing BDD, if you are using C#, you’ll be using SpecFlow… if you are using TypeScript, TypeSpec is the only option (although you can use JavaScript frameworks too, with an associated type definition). So the reason for the comparison is to see what step definitions […]
In TypeSpec, events are raised during a test run that can be intercepted by a test reporter. TypeSpec has a built-in test reporter that logs a whole bunch of information to the console. It also has a test reporter for TAP output. When these options don’t offer what you need, you can write your own […]
There are two reasons you might want to add this step to your Octopus Deploy project. The first is to perform a basic check that your newly deployed website or API is working and the second is to warm it up (although there are built-in IIS utilities for this too). I have defined a variable […]