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ASP.NET Core 1 build & deployment pipelines with TeamCity and Octopus

ASP.NET Core 1 and the dotnet CLI makes publishing applications a first-class feature of the platform. This post explains how to hook it into your build & deployment pipeline.

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files

Cleaning temporary ASP.NET files with Octopus Deploy

Migrating an ASP.NET web app from IIS on-premises to an Azure App Service

Learn how to migrate an ASP.NET web app from hosting it on-premises to an Azure App Service in the Cloud.

Migrating 426 Nancy API endpoints to ASP.NET Core controllers

We migrated Octopus Deploy to a more standardized way of writing an API, using ASP.NET controllers. Learn about our implementation strategy: Derisk, Enable, Finish.

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Deploying ASP.NET Core to Linux using Octopus

A walk-through of deploying an ASP.NET Core application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy 2.0 has shipped!

A summary of key features in 2.0

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app - Will it Deploy? Episode 1

We try to automate the deployment of a ASP.NET core web app to Microsoft's Azure platform with infrastructure provisioning and zero production downtime.

Deploying an ASP.NET MVC web app to Azure with AppVeyor and Octopus - Will it Deploy? Episode 6

Deploying an ASP.NET MVC web app to Azure with a cloud-based delivery pipeline using AppVeyor and Octopus - Will it Deploy? Episode 6

Deploying an ASP.NET Core web app to Linux - Will it Deploy? Episode 7

Deploying an ASP.NET Core web app to an AWS Ubuntu Linux VM with SQL Server for Linux - Will it Deploy? Episode 7

Octopus 3.1 will require .NET 4.5

Octopus and Tentacle have always been built against .NET 4.0, but from Octopus 3.1 onwards we'll be building against .NET 4.5.

How ioGlobal use Octopus Deploy

Packaging for .NETCore, on .NETCore, with Octopus

Using Octopus tooling to package .NETCore applications on .NETCore

PowerShell and IIS: 20 practical examples

Real-world examples tested on Windows 2008 R2 through to 2016. Creating sites, configuring application pools, and examples in both the old WebAdministration module and the newer IISAdministration module.

Octopus Deploy sponsors the .NET Foundation

Octopus Deploy announces corporate sponsorship for the .NET Foundation

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

Unsupported versions of Windows and .NET

Understand why old versions of Windows can fail to make network requests.

Building the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)

Depending on your Linux distro, you may have to build the APR from scratch to take advantage of the higher performance of the OpenSSL library in Tomcat.

Using classes in custom step templates

Learn how to implement a class in a custom step template.

Azure VM extension for Octopus Deploy

Deploy .NET applications directly to Azure VM's using our Tentacle agent extension.

Microservices and frameworks

An overview of microservices and the different frameworks you can use to support them.

Actors vs. RPC: building a new (old) transport layer for Octopus 3.0

The Services Behind Octopus Deploy Ltd

Documentation

ASP.NET Core webapp

This guide covers everything you need to perform your first ASP.NET Core webapp deployment.

Create and push an ASP.NET Core project

This guide describes how to package and publish an ASP.NET Core project to Octopus from your development workstation.

Upgrading a modern version of Octopus

Everything you need to know about upgrading a modern version of Octopus.

.NET Configuration transforms

Using .NET configuration transformations.

NGINX deployments

This guide covers everything you need to configure NGINX on Linux for your web applications

Configure Octopus Deploy project

This guide describes how to configure your Octopus project to deploy an ASP.NET Core project together with an Angular CLI project and configuring NGINX to a Linux deployment target.

Octopus Server Container with systemd

Using systemd, you can have the Octopus Server Linux Container running in Docker each time the OS starts on your host machine.

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