February 2016 Summaries

Michael Noonan discusses a proposal for enhancing Octopus Deploy's support for multi-tenant deployments by treating tenants as a first-class concept, as opposed to the previous approach of using environments as proxies for tenants. The proposal aims to simplify the management of multi-tenant applications, facilitating tenant-aware lifecycles, tenant-centric workflows, and improved dashboards by allowing users to select tenants using tags. This approach is expected to make deployments more flexible and scalable, enabling features like tenant-specific variables, project variable templates, and deployment targets, while maintaining backwards compatibility. The new model would allow for granular control over which projects are deployed to which environments for each tenant, and it introduces the concept of variable templates to manage tenant-specific variables efficiently. The proposal invites feedback from users to refine and align the features with their needs, emphasizing the potential for collaboration through the Request for Comments (RFC) process.