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Date Published
Author
Paul Stovell
Word count
505
Language
English
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None

Summary

Paul Stovell discusses potential improvements to the deployment workflow of Octopus Deploy to address issues in the current architecture. The existing process involves three stages: downloading packages from a NuGet feed, uploading them to Tentacles, and executing deployment steps. However, this approach can lead to inefficiencies, such as the inability to run pre-upload scripts and excessive bandwidth usage due to duplicate package uploads. Stovell proposes two key changes: introducing pre-package upload steps that allow tasks like VPN connections to be executed before package downloads and enabling Tentacles to download packages directly from a NuGet server instead of through Octopus. These changes aim to enhance deployment efficiency, particularly in distributed environments, and Stovell invites feedback on these suggestions.