PaaS Deployment Targets

Octopus Deploy, a release-management and deployment-automation tool, is enhancing its support for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) endpoints like Azure Web Apps and Service Fabric by modeling them as deployment targets, which allows for improved visibility, role assignment, and integration with operations processes. This shift addresses past limitations, particularly around the dynamic provisioning of infrastructure, by enabling deployment steps to communicate with the Octopus server to add new targets during deployment processes. The 2018.5 release introduces licensing changes, where PaaS targets will begin contributing to licensing limits, aligning with the increasing trend of PaaS adoption. The update aims to facilitate easier management of environments and sets the stage for future features related to dynamic provisioning and operational process execution, with no breaking changes to existing configurations.