The Octopus Deploy 3.0 time saver - delta compression

Octopus Deploy 3.0 introduces delta compression, a feature designed to streamline the deployment process by only uploading changes in packages rather than the entire package to each Tentacle, which is particularly beneficial for frequent small updates. In a practical experiment comparing Octopus Deploy 2.6 and 3.0, 50 deployments of 110MB packages with 10MB of changes were tested across 20 geographically dispersed Tentacles. The results showed that while version 2.6 averaged 7 minutes per deployment with a total run time of over 6 hours, version 3.0 significantly reduced the time to an average of 1 minute 30 seconds after the initial deployment, culminating in a total run time of just 1 hour 26 minutes. This improvement not only reduces deployment waiting times but also conserves bandwidth and optimizes server and Tentacle resources for additional deployments.