Infrastructure

With Octopus Deploy you can deploy software to Windows servers, Linux servers, Microsoft Azure, AWS, an offline package drop, or cloud regions. These machines and services are your deployment targets, and because software is typically deployed to more than one machine (or deployment target) Octopus organizes your deployment targets into groups called environments. Typical environments are Development, Test, and Production.

Your environments and deployment targets are managed from the Infrastructure tab of the Octopus Web Portal.

Adding Deployment Targets to Environments

Deployment targets are added to environments in different ways, depending on the type of target and how they will communicate with the Octopus Deploy Server.

• Tentacles on Windows targets
• SSH targets
• AWS targets
• Azure targets

Workers

Octopus comes with a built-in worker that can run scripts and perform tasks that don't run on deployment targets. You can configure external workers and pools of workers to move these tasks off the Octopus Server for better performance and increased security.

In This Section

The following topics are explained further in this section:

• Environments
• Windows Targets
• SSH Targets
• Azure
• AWS
• Workers
• Offline Package Drop
• Cloud Regions
• Target Roles
• Machine Policies
• Managing Resources using scripts