Ryan Rousseau

tech, comedy, cats, mostly cats, Continuous Delivery Architect @OctopusDeploy, opinions are mine, he/him

Deep Ellum, Dallas Joined on Apr 15, 2019 https://blog.rousseau.dev

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Senior Continuous Delivery Architect at Octopus Deploy

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Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Jul 31 '20

Ask Octopus - How do I change the order of the environments in my lifecycle?

#octopus #devops #tutorial

1 min read

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Jul 13 '20

Ask Octopus - How do I add my Azure credentials?

#octopus #devops #azure #tutorial

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Apr 27 '20

Publishing a package to Octopus with GitHub Actions

#devops #github #octopus

5 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Feb 20 '20

Using Cake build scripts for your .NET Core web apps

#cake #devops #octopus

7 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Mar 29

A tip for debugging Octopus Deploy variables

#devops #octopus #debugging #variables

2 min read

"But What If I Just... Did It?"

The number of times I've procrastinated on something that end...

Jul 27 '20

I'm Alex and I'm a Recovering Perfectionist

This is definitely a struggle for me. I'm trying to get bette...

May 27 '20

Announcing: The Twilio Hackathon Winners!

Thanks Peter and congrats to everyone - wonderful projects al...

May 5 '20

Wellbean: The Finished Product! x Twilio Hackathon

Very cool project with a very cool name!

May 3 '20

whats the best CI/CD service

"Best" will really depend on your team's needs. For an all-...

Mar 20 '20

I never deploy on Fridays, but when I do...

Very cool!

Feb 23 '20

I never deploy on Fridays, but when I do...

For sure. I think that's a perfectly valid reason for not d...

Feb 21 '20

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Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Jan 22 '21

Ask Octopus - How do I set the master key for my Octopus container?

#octopus #devops #docker

1 min read

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Dec 7 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I host the Octopus Server in Docker?

#octopus #devops #docker

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Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Dec 1 '20

Ask Octopus - How can I set up Disaster Recovery?

#octopus #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Nov 23 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I turn off health checks?

#octopus #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Nov 13 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I have a test Octopus Server?

#octopus #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Nov 6 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I deploy database changes?

#octopus #tutorial #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Oct 30 '20

Ask Octopus - How do I ignore messages written to stderr?

#octopus #tutorial #devops

1 min read

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Oct 23 '20

Ask Octopus - Can consumers of my step templates provide their own packages?

#octopus #tutorial #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Oct 16 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I use the date in the release number?

#octopus #tutorial #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Oct 9 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I make a copy of a project?

#octopus #tutorial #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Oct 2 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I change the Worker Pool by environment?

#octopus #tutorial #devops #api

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Sep 25 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I get a list of upgradable Tentacles?

#octopus #tutorial #devops #api

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Sep 21 '20

Easy SSH sessions with Windows Terminal

#tutorial #linux #windowsterminal #ssh

3 min read

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Sep 18 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I show a progress bar during a deployment?

#octopus #tutorial #devops #logging

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Sep 11 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I highlight task log entries?

#octopus #tutorial #devops #logging

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Sep 8 '20

Ask Octopus - What are release artifacts and how can I upload them?

#octopus #tutorial #api #devops

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Aug 28 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I check my server health with the API?

#octopus #tutorial #api #devops

1 min read

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Aug 21 '20

Ask Octopus - Can I set a global Runbook retention policy?

#octopus #tutorial #runbooks #devops

1 min read

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Aug 14 '20

Ask Octopus - How do I aggregate output variable values across targets?

#octopus #tutorial

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Aug 7 '20

Ask Octopus - How can I store Terraform state in Azure?

#octopus #terraform #tutorial #azure

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Jul 24 '20

Ask Octopus - How do I migrate tenants from one target to another?

#octopus #devops #api #tutorial

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Jul 17 '20

Ask Octopus - How do I upload files to Azure Blob storage?

#octopus #devops #azure #tutorial

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Jul 9 '20

Contributing a step template to the Octopus Deploy Community Library

#octopus #firebase #devops

7 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Jul 7 '20

Creating an Octopus Deploy step template

#devops #octopus #firebase #bash

6 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

May 15 '20

TIL about shell parameter expansion in Bash

#todayilearned #bash #quicktip

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

May 8 '20

TIL you can reference PowerShell object properties using a variable containing the name

#todayilearned #powershell #quicktip

1 min read

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Apr 30 '20

Submitting Octwilio to the Twilio x DEV Hackathon!

#devops #twilio #octopus #twiliohackathon

2 min read

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Apr 30 '20

Adding SMS alerts for deployments to Octwilio

#devops #twilio #octopus #twiliohackathon

2 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Apr 24 '20

Give Azure resources access to your Azure database in ARM and Terraform templates

#azure #arm #terraform #quicktip

1 min read

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Apr 22 '20

Reacting to messages sent to Twilio

#devops #twilio #octopus #twiliohackathon

5 min read

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Apr 18 '20

Reacting to events raised by Octopus

#devops #twilio #octopus #twiliohackathon

4 min read

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Apr 17 '20

Adding notifications for every production deployment in Octopus Deploy

#devops #octopus #firebase #slack

8 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Apr 16 '20

Octwilio - combining the Octopus and Twilio APIs for #TwilioHackathon

#devops #twilio #octopus #twiliohackathon

3 min read

Ryan Rousseau for Octopus Deploy

Apr 9 '20

ICYMI, you can set release storage settings on Firebase sites

#quicktip #firebase #web

1 min read

Ryan Rousseau

Jun 1 '19

Weekend Project - Raspberry Pi NAS

#raspberrypi #linux #weekendproject

4 min read

Ryan Rousseau

Apr 21 '19

My Favorite Colors for Peacock

#vscode

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1 min read

Ryan Rousseau

Apr 20 '19

Getting Reacquainted with Wyam

#blogging #wyam #tutorial

3 min read

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