We feel however, that Octopus Deploy still plays a crucial part in this process to allow your container deployments to integrate into your full deployment pipeline, through a staged environment lifecycle and alongside other non-container phases. We feel this best follows the container mentality and avoids trying to re-invent container build and orchestration tools that already exist.
Following on from the original Octopus-Docker blog post and subsequent RFC, Octopus Deploy is taking the approach to treat Docker images as immutable build artifacts that are moved through each stage of deployment by running them as containers with deploy-time specific configuration.
