Spaces are a new way in Octopus to organize projects, environments, and permissions that improves on project groups. Spaces allow organizations to separate resources and access by team, application, hosting location, or other logical grouping. This provides benefits like limiting visibility and permissions to only relevant resources, preventing accidental deployments to the wrong systems, and making the interface less cluttered with many projects and environments. The document discusses how different organizations like Octopus itself, banks, software companies, and small startups could use spaces to better structure their deployment processes.

2. Spaces = Project Groups on Steroids

3. New way to organize your Octopus
Octopus Instance
Space
Environments
Projects
Channels
Variables
Releases
Process
Tenants
Lifecycles
Library Variables
Step Templates
Groups
Users

4. New way to organise the UI
Current space
All spaces

5. New way to manage permissions
Octopus Instance
Space
Environments
Projects
Channels
Variables
Releases
Process
Tenants
Lifecycles
Library Variables
Step Templates
Groups
Users
Octopus
Administrators
can create
spaces
These groups
can view this
space.
Only Group G
can deploy to
production.
Only Group B can
edit production
variables.
Only Group Q
can use me in a
project.

6. Spaces fix everything
• “I want to let people create projects, but only in a specific group” (group = space)
• “When I go to the environments tab, I only want to see relevant environments – not all 150” –
group them into spaces
• “I don’t want to mix production servers from totally different departments into one environment”
– each dept. gets a space
• “I have too many projects/environments/tenants” – group them into spaces

7. How we would use spaces at Octopus
• Each team gets their own space
• E.g., Team Commercial have a space containing Octofront
• Spaces based on where something is hosted
• E.g., all Azure dev tooling things go together
• Much the same way that we use Project Groups now

8. How CBA would use Spaces
• NetBank has a space
• CommBiz has a space
• CommSee has a space
“How do we prevent accidentally deploying CommSee to NetBank’s app servers if
we select the wrong role? Spaces!”

9. How Microsoft would use spaces
• NuGet has a space
• .NET Core team has a space
• Documentation team has a space
• Office team have a space

10. How two devs in a garage would use spaces
• One for their SaaS product
• Has test and production environments
• One for their brochure website
• Has a different test/production environment
• One for their internal systems

11. Migration
• Pretty sure it can be automated 