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6 July 2020

What’s the difference between blue/green and red/black deployments?

When deploying new versions of a centralized application like a web service, there’s a strategy you can use to direct production traffic to the new version only after it has been successfully deployed and optionally tested. This strategy goes by the name blue/green or red/black, with each color representing a… Read more

Octopus Deploy

1 June 2020

Octopus Deploy

1 June 2020

Continuous Integration vs Continuous Deployment

The terms Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tend to be combined into the acronym CI/CD, often without any distinction between the two. CI and CD are distinct processes, even if this combining of terms suggests that Continuous Deployment is an extension of Continuous Integration, and the execution of both processes is the responsibility of… Read more

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Octopus Deploy

4 May 2020

Octopus Deploy

4 May 2020

Pitfalls with SQL rollbacks and automated database deployments

While it’s possible to perform SQL rollbacks to revert database changes, the question is, should you? Rolling back a database change isn’t as straightforward as rolling back a code change. Databases are the lifeblood of applications. An unsuccessful rollback can result in bad or deleted data. This article goes through… Read more

automated database deployment

Octopus Deploy

6 April 2020

Octopus Deploy

6 April 2020

Designing an automated database deployment process: case study

In my previous article, How to design an automated database deployment process, I wrote about the steps companies and organizations should take to introduce automation to their database deployments. In this article, I’m going talk about the challenges I faced when I embarked on my own automation journey. Prior to… Read more

automated database deployment

Octopus Deploy

2 March 2020

Octopus Deploy

2 March 2020

How to design an automated database deployment process

For many companies and organizations, automated database deployments are the final piece of the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery puzzle They need to go from deployments that take hours down to minutes. I know from personal experience that it can take many attempts to successfully automate database deployments and the… Read more

automated database deployment

Octopus Deploy

3 February 2020

Octopus Deploy

3 February 2020

Implementing DevOps in Federal Government

Governments are often slow-moving bureaucracies, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to implement better processes within government agencies. A few years ago, I was hired as a Configuration Manager at a small US state government agency. I had a challenging mandate that took years to achieve: Automate the manual… Read more

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Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

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Posts by
Octopus Deploy

What’s the difference between blue/green and red/black deployments?

Continuous Integration vs Continuous Deployment

Pitfalls with SQL rollbacks and automated database deployments

Designing an automated database deployment process: case study

How to design an automated database deployment process

Implementing DevOps in Federal Government

2026 State of the Database Landscape

Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional

Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

Redgate Flyway

Redgate Monitor

SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Redgate Test Data Manager

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Octopus Deploy