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Teamcity and Octopus – part 3
We now have a nice clean Release build of our project using a custom MsBuild target. Using this target is important because Teamcity is responsible for the job not just me working on my laptop! Keep...
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Teamcity and Octopus – part 4
Before rushing into all the cool automated stuff we have to dive into one important part of the flow which is… version control. You must use verion control for all your software! Period! At this moment...
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Working with Kubernetes I
Once in a while there pops up really impressive technology. Technology which will be responsible for a total movement within web development. For the last years, for me, these technologies are: Net...
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Working with Kubernetes II
So, we have 3 images. Time to think about how these images must be running inside a Kubernetes cluster. As mentioned in my previous post we have a single webapp which must be communicating with 2...
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Working with Kubernetes III
The last part is maybe the most important part: automation! This is actually quite easy thanks to Kubernetes. In this post I’ll cover: Updating an image Rollback Removing everything Updating an image...
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Sitecore, Docker and Kubernetes
There are some great initiatives already of running Sitecore in containers. The problem is that Sitecore is still using the .Net Framework which needs IIS to run hence you’ll need some sort of a...
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Managed Kubernetes in Azure
Kubernetes is awesome! However, setting up a cluster is really difficult. You must think twice before you are going this direction. Consider using a managed cluster instead. For example the Azure...
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Using variables in Kubernetes
No single environment is equal to the other. While the content of the deployment itself is equal (at least, it should be), the differences between the applications resides in the variables. This...
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Deploy Azure ARM using Octopus Deploy
At the moment I’m working on a project which uses Octopus Deploy for all deployments to Kubernetes clusters and Azure WebApps. This project is used for powering 18 different frontends, so, the code is...
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Fun with Azure DevOps Multistage Pipeline
I’ve been a huge fan of Octopus Deploy and Teamcity. However, the downside of these great tools is the lack of storing the configurations in versioncontrol. Configurations are done in the web...
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