Eating our own dog food

The blog post by Matt Richardson discusses the development and improvements made to Octopus Cloud by using Octopus Deploy extensively within the company, a practice known as "dogfooding." Through this approach, the team has been able to identify and address several issues, such as improving the OctopusDSC module for better high-availability scenarios, enhancing security features to prevent sensitive data leaks, and optimizing script execution by introducing Workers for greater isolation. The team also focused on metrics collection using tools like Elasticsearch and Grafana to monitor performance, leading to better resource management and cost efficiency. The post highlights usability enhancements and bug fixes that have been implemented based on user testing and real-world deployment experiences, such as simplifying multi-tenant deployments and refining user interface elements for clarity and efficiency. Despite the progress, the team acknowledges there is still a long list of potential improvements to pursue, emphasizing their commitment to continual enhancements of the Octopus Cloud platform.