Octopus.Manual exported 2026-07-22 by Octopus Deploy belongs to ‘Other’ category.
Pauses deployment for human intervention, often used for approval workflow.
Parameters
When this step is included in a project’s deployment process, the parameters below can be set.
Instructions
Octopus.Action.Manual.Instructions (required)
These instructions will be presented to the user to follow.
Example: Don't break anything :)
Responsible teams
Octopus.Action.Manual.ResponsibleTeamIds
Select the teams responsible for this manual step. If no teams are specified, all users who have permission to deploy the project will be able to perform the manual step. When one or more teams are specified, as in the case of an approval workflow, then only members of those teams will be able to perform the step. Specifying responsible teams will make the step unable to be skipped.
Example: teams-123,teams-124
Block deployments
Octopus.Action.Manual.BlockConcurrentDeployments
Should other deployments be blocked while this manual intervention is awaiting action. When set to False, another deployment may begin while this step is awaiting intervention.
Allowed values: True, False
Default: False
Step configuration using OCL
Example in Octopus Configuration Language (OCL):
step "manual-intervention" {
name = "Manual Intervention"
action {
action_type = "Octopus.Manual"
properties = {
Octopus.Action.Manual.BlockConcurrentDeployments = "False"
Octopus.Action.Manual.Instructions = "Please approve this deployment."
Octopus.Action.RunOnServer = "false"
}
}
}Page updated on Wednesday, July 22, 2026