GitHub Feeds

In March 2018, Octopus Deploy introduced a new feature allowing users to utilize GitHub as a feed source for deployments, enabling direct deployment of files from GitHub without intermediate build steps. This functionality allows Octopus to treat GitHub resources as packages by reading and parsing repository tags, which are then used to deploy scripts and templates, thus simplifying the deployment process and enhancing version control. The approach eliminates the need for packaging scripts separately, streamlining the continuous integration pipeline and facilitating better management of deployment dependencies. Despite the current focus on tags and releases, there are future plans to offer more comprehensive Git-as-a-feed support, integrating concepts like branches and commits more thoroughly, while addressing the limitations related to external hooks for triggering automatic release creation.