On March 21st at Philly .NET Code Camp "2015.1" Dante Papada and I taught a class called "Continuous Integration with Visual Studio Online, Octopus and Team City" - http://phillydotnet.org/sessions/continuous-integration-with-visual-studio-online-octopus-and-team-city/
To make collaboration easier Dante and I decided to create our presentation/ development environment in the cloud:
We started out by creating three new virtual machines in Azure; all with Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2:
-- We named vm1 Octoweb01 and installed the latest version of Octopus.
-- We named vm2 TCBuild01 and installed the latest version of Team City.
-- We named vm3 Octotent01 and installed Octopus Tentacle and SQL Express 2012.
I'm not going to detail the step-by-step instructions for installing Octopus, Team City and Octopus Tentacle because they are well documented on the Octopus and Team City websites:
-- Octopus Deploy - https://octopusdeploy.com/downloads
-- Team City - https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download/
Demo 1
In the first demo I showed how to manually create a NuGet package using NuGet Package Explorer and how to deploy the package to an IIS web site on Octotent01:
1. Download and install NuGet Package Explorer from https://npe.codeplex.com/.
2. Launch NuGet Package Explorer and select "Create a new package":
3. Select Edit - “Edit Metadata” and re-name the package
Id. I named mine “ThinkSimple”.
4. Use Windows Explorer to drag some HTML files into
“Package Contents”:
5. Save the package locally and then copy it to the Octopus server; copy it to folder c:\packages on Octoweb01.
6. On Octoweb01 go to the Octopus dashboard. On the top menu select "Library" - "External feeds".
7. Add a new feed called "Local Feed". Point the URL to "c:\feeds". Click "Save and Test".
8. On the top menu select "Projects" - "All Projects".
9. Click "Add Project".
10. Name the project "ThinkSimple website". Click "Save".
11. On the "Choose step type" page select "Deploy a NuGet package".
12. On the "Step details" page:
A. Step Name = "Deploy Website".
B. Machine roles = "web-server".
C. NuGet feed = "Local Feed".
D. NuGet package ID = "ThinkSimple".
13. Click "Configure Features" and select "IIS web site and application". Click "Apply".
14. Enter the Web site name and the Application Pool Name - "Think Simple".
15. Check "Enable Anonymous Authentication" and for Environments select "Dev". Click "Save".
16. Click "Create a Release". Click "Save".
17. Click "Deploy Release". Click "Deploy Now".
18. After the task is complete you should see "Success".
