Deployment dashboard
The Octopus web portal gives your team and your stakeholders a clear and simple view over what application releases are in what environments right now. They can drill in to see when a project was released, who released it, read the release notes, view package versions, and deploy it to the next environment.
Secure out of the box
Install a lightweight service agent called Tentacle on your servers, and then use our easy installation wizard to set up a secure connection between the Octopus and Tentacle based on secure public/private key encryption technology. No passwords required, no need to be on the same Active Directory domain.
Promote between environments
Deploy your applications to servers or virtual machines running on Amazon EC2 or in Windows Azure, in a data center, or on premise, or via FTP. Promote releases between environments - development, test, staging or production.
Web applications & services
Designed for .NET developers, Octopus makes it easy to deploy ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms applications, Windows Services and console applications. Use PowerShell scripts to run custom installation tasks, configure Windows services or create IIS websites.
Manual intervention
Some deployment tasks are too difficult to automate, or perhaps you need approval before a deployment proceeds. You can have Octopus pause at the start or in the middle of a deployment for a human to manually intervene.
Variables
Use variables to configure different connection strings and application settings for your test, staging and production environments. Octopus can automatically update your application and web.config files, and run environment-specific XML configuration transforms.
JetBrains TeamCity plugin
Our TeamCity plugin makes building a continuous deployment workflow with TeamCity easy. After building your code, TeamCity can package it up, and deploy it to your test environment using Octopus. Then after successfully running integration tests, TeamCity can notify Octopus to promote it to staging or production.
Based on NuGet
Octopus uses the NuGet package format, a popular format created by Microsoft and used by products like Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC. A NuGet package is a just a self-describing ZIP file with a manifest, which makes it the perfect format for packaging applications.
Deploy to Windows Azure
Octopus Deploy can automate the deployment and promotion of your Windows Azure web and worker roles. Octopus can automatically configure your cloud service, keep the existing instance counts, or swap VIP's. You can even use a hybrid deployment model: local servers for testing, and the cloud for production.
Command line & REST API
Octopus exposes a REST API over HTTP, which you can use to automate your Octopus installation. We also provide Octo.exe, a command line tool for creating and promoting releases.
Permissions
Use permissions to control who can deploy which applications to which environments, who can view or edit configuration variables for production, and much more.
Retention policies
Octopus deploys applications side-by-side to make rolling back easily. Use retention policies to control how long Octopus keeps releases on the target machines, and whether to purge them from the Octopus database.
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