DEVOPSdigest

Octopus Deploy announced their GitHub Copilot Extension that increases efficiency and helps developers stay in the flow.

The Octopus extension is an integration that responds to plain text chat queries submitted from Copilot that responds with useful information from customers' Octopus instances, making it simpler to connect Octopus and GitHub for deployments.

"The Octopus extension will enable our customers to have natural conversations around the state of their deployments running in production," said Harsh Sabikhi, SVP of Worldwide Revenue at Octopus Deploy. "It will reduce context switching and increase efficiency by helping developers stay in the flow."

The Octopus extension makes it easier for customers to harness the power of Octopus without needing a deep understanding of Octopus. This means that anyone can get answers to deployment-related questions quickly and easily. The extension integrates with GitHub Copilot Chat and gives people the ability to simply extract information from Octopus about deployments, such as:

- Summaries of the state of deployments

- Access to reporting in logs and security vulnerabilities

- Reporting and statistics around deployments

- Step-by-step instructions straight from Octopus documentation

The Octopus extension also provides a more seamless experience for teams using the GitHub UI exclusively. DevOps teams can get the relevant information they need for deployments without context switching from GitHub, saving time for developers. It makes it easier to streamline workflows and understand the state of deployments using simple text-based queries.

"The Octopus extension allows anyone to query the state of application deployments, generate custom reports such as a markdown table showing the release version, release notes and status of the last 5 deployments, and discover the features and platforms used by deployment processes," said Matthew Casperson, Solutions Engineer at Octopus Deploy. "The natural language interface implemented by Octopus Copilot exposes valuable business knowledge without requiring a deep understanding of Octopus, removing a barrier for those who want quick answers to deployment-related questions. They can ask questions of their Octopus instance as if they were talking to an Octopus expert."

The Octopus extension is available in limited public beta.