Octopus Easy Mode - Community Step Templates

Matthew Casperson's article, dated February 25, 2026, guides users through the process of creating a project with a community step template in Octopus Deploy. It highlights the prerequisites, including having an Octopus Cloud account and the Octopus AI Assistant Chrome extension, emphasizing the ease of use with the cloud-hosted version. The article provides a step-by-step process to integrate a community step template into a script project named "11. Script App with Community Step Template," using a URL from the Octopus Step Template Library to uniquely identify the template. This template, contributed by the Octopus community, adds functionality to projects by calculating and printing deployment mode information. The guide concludes by suggesting the next steps in project development, such as defining project channels.