So in addition to upgrading Octopus, you’ll also need to upgrade any Tentacles manually. If you are upgrading from version 1.6 – Octopus 2.0 server can no longer communicate with Tentacle 1.6. SMTP Server Settings are not kept, so these will need to be re-entered. Once you have the server installed there’s a couple of items you’ll need to configure again. Instructions on how to backup the key can be found here:

When you have completed the installation it’s essential to task a copy of the master key for backups. To do this, select the “import from Octopus 1.6” option and choose the database back-up from the process you followed in step 1 and follow the instructions. Once you’ve installed Octopus 2.0, you’ll most likely want to import your old v1.6 database with all your existing configuration. Octopus Step 3 – Import Previous Octopus Database There’s a great video here on how to install This process is really straight forward, and if you’ve installed Octopus before you’ll be familiar with most of the process. Next follow the installer instructions and the Octopus Manager process. You’ll need this file at a later stage in the upgrade process (and if anything goes wrong)ĭownload the latest installer MSI from the Octopus Website at The first step is to ensure that you have a recent database backup that you can restore in case anything goes wrong.Ĭonfirm the location of your backup file. SMTP Server Settings (these are not kept in upgrade).Are you using ARR or rewrite rules of any kind. Before attempting to migrate, make sure that you don’t have any projects, environments, or machines with duplicated names (this is no longer allowed in Octopus 2.0, and the migration wizard will report an error if it finds duplicates).Your administrator username and password (especially, if you are not using Active Directory).So let’s take a look at how the upgrade process works. IIS website and application pool configuration.

We’ve had a chance to play with the product for sometime, and it’s a great next version. On 20th December 2013, Paul Stovell and the Octopus Team released Octopus Deploy 2.0.

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