Continuous delivery (CD), GitOps and release orchestration vendor Octopus Deploy is rolling out a GitHub copilot connectivity extension and new enterprise features for Kubernetes delivery.
Harsh Sabikhi, senior vice-president of worldwide revenue at Octopus Deploy, said the extension for GitHub Copilot
“The Octopus extension will enable our customers to have natural conversations around the state of their deployments running in production,” Sabikhi said in the announcement.
“It will reduce context switching and increase efficiency by helping developers stay in the flow.”
GitHub Copilot Extension is intended to boost efficiency, helping developers stay in their “flow”. The Octopus extension is an integration that responds to plain text chat queries submitted from Copilot, responding with useful information from customers’ Octopus instances, the vendor said.
This should simplify connection of Octopus and GitHub for deployments, which should also make it easier for customers to benefit from Octopus without deeper knowledge through access to deployment-state summaries, access to reporting in logs and security vulnerabilities, and more.
“Anyone can get answers to deployment-related questions quickly and easily,” Octopus said. “They can ask questions of their Octopus instance as if they were talking to an Octopus expert.”
The announcement follows a features release for simpler Kubernetes continuous delivery in the enterprise, including a Kubernetes agent and external feed triggers for Docker and Helm.
Colin Bowern, senior vice-president for product at Octopus Deploy, said Kubernetes can be complicated when it comes to deploying hundreds or thousands of applications, managing environments, getting visibility over pipelines, and dealing with compliance.
“What starts as a few lines of scripts and a few YAML files in Git becomes thousands of scripts and YAML sprawl – essentially do-it-yourself shadow continuous-delivery tooling,” Bowern said in the announcement.
The new enterprise-focused features from Octopus Deploy enable deployments to Kubernetes at scale while eliminating the need for complex and expensive continuous integration (CI) scripts, according to the vendor.
The Octopus Kubernetes agent simplifies deployments to Kubernetes at scale by changing how Octopus interacts with Kubernetes clusters. For instance, installing the agent on a cluster registers it as a target in Octopus, so customers don’t need to configure authentication.
Also, customers don’t need to allow external network access to the cluster as the agent starts and maintains the connection. With the agent, deployment tasks run on the cluster for maximum security and optimal resource utilisation, the vendor said.
“By leveraging Octopus, they can avoid manually updating YAML manifests every time they create a new container while still benefiting from pull-driven deployments. This makes it easier to model complex scenarios,” the announcement said.
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