Octopus Deploy has enhanced its support for integrating Docker and Docker-Compose into continuous deployment pipelines, allowing users to leverage environment variables and image versioning through new scripting features. This integration facilitates the deployment of containerized applications by enabling dynamic variable substitution and image management directly through Octopus, thus standardizing build environments and ensuring consistency across different stages. Users can now manage Docker-Compose tasks more effectively by employing a separate .env file tailored for deployment, which can be dynamically populated with Octopus variables, thereby maintaining the flexibility to run and test locally. This approach is exemplified by a project that builds a Python web application with a Redis data store, demonstrating how Octopus' new multi-package selection and scripting capabilities can streamline the deployment process while allowing for easy updates and scalable configurations.