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Octopus Pane of Glass
Overview of Stack Components
As an intermediatry, Octopus provides release gating, orchestration and a overview of the stack components, and what versions have been promoted to which environments.
Parent Project
The parent project does not perform any deployment activity itself, it serves as the orchestrator of the child projects, providing gating and sequencing.
Child Projects
The child project, use the same template process, but each has the release packages that have been build to perform their technology specific deployment process.
Component Independence
The approach above does offer the ability to independently promote or roll-back a child component. This can be beneficial for hot-fixes, however, it is discouraged as it breaks the stack alignment principles of the release train.