Octopus 2025.3 is now available
It's been an exciting month at Octopus. We've seen the Octopus 2025.3 release, a new Platform Engineering report, and Argo CD in Octopus early access announced.
We're also on the lookout for participants for our next survey, focusing on the future of Platform Engineering.
Finally, check out our latest case study with The Lottery Corporation and discover how Octopus helped reduce its deployment time from 90 minutes to 10 minutes (plus lots more).
Read on for more.
Octopus 2025.3 is now available
The new features in Octopus 2025.3 offer clearer insights, faster testing, and better performance.
This release’s noteworthy updates include:
- Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes apps in one place with Live Object Status
- Faster, safer, and more cost-effective testing with Ephemeral Environments - Early Access Preview
- Improve performance with more control over package retention policies
- Greater control over complex processes with a modernized Process Editor
The release is already available on Octopus Cloud and is now ready for download by our self-hosted customers.
Ephemeral Environments now ready for Early Access
We want to help you put an end to “it works on my machine.”
Ephemeral environments in Octopus lets you test changes in an isolated, temporary environment before you merge them into your main branch. You get the confidence that your changes work the way you expect — without surprises later.
Early access is now available for all cloud based customers.
Self-hosted customers early access will be available in the 2025.3 release if you are interested please reach out to your account manager or harriet.alexander@octopus.com to find out how to enable this feature.
IP allow list now available
Octopus Cloud’s new IP address allow list feature lets you restrict the IP addresses that can initiate traffic with your Octopus Cloud instance. This provides an effective tool for enforcing internal access policies and adds a layer of protection against some common forms of cyber attack.
Kubernetes Live Object Status is now available for self-hosted customers
In April, we launched Kubernetes Live Object Status in Early Access for Cloud customers. Today, over 60 customers use it in Octopus Cloud to simplify deployment observability and speed up troubleshooting.
We now recommend it for all Kubernetes deployments in Octopus. With the 2025.3 release, it’s also coming to self-hosted customers (HA on-prem configurations not yet supported, but in progress).
Kubernetes Live Object Status lets you:
- Monitor real-time application health
- View deployed objects and their statuses
- Access logs, events, and manifests without cluster access
- Troubleshoot and verify deployments in one place
Early access to Argo CD in Octopus
Rolling out as an early preview for Octopus Cloud. Octopus makes life easier for developers and platform teams using Argo CD. Orchestrate complex GitOps deployments across environments, apps, and clusters with built-in compliance and security. Track application health and deployment state on one screen. Everything works out of the box. No custom scripting.
Your IDP needs DDD
As Platform Engineering grows into a movement at scale, we need to revisit the past and apply some lessons from domain-driven design to our internal developer platforms.
The Future of Platform Engineering survey
Platform Engineering promises to revolutionize development teams, but does reality match the vision? We're exploring what drives platform adoption and what success actually looks like in real organizations.
New report on Platform Engineering
The Platform Engineering Pulse report compares theory to reality. Based on data collected from over 20 industries, we have found key gaps between what experts recommend and what organizations actually do in practice.
The Lottery Corporation reduced deployment time from 90 to 10 minutes with Octopus
The Lottery Corporation (TLC) is one of the best-performing lottery businesses in the world. It has more than 3,800 lottery outlets and 3,400 Keno venues in Australia, with digital distribution through apps and online platforms.
Before using Octopus, TLC’s manual deployments were lengthy, risky, and often had to occur in the early morning, with a 3-hour downtime window. The team wanted to reduce the possibility of outages while making it easier to manage strict regulatory requirements.
Using Octopus, TLC reduced deployment time from 90 minutes to 10 minutes, and no longer needs downtime windows. Teams can even deploy changes during heightened events like jackpots, where changes were previously locked down. They use role-based access controls (RBAC) in Octopus to manage strict deployment requirements, while built-in audit logs make audit time pain-free.
Happy deployments!