--- title: From features to solutions | daily.dev description: Octopus Deploy's blog shows how to combine smaller features into a solution that notifies the right people when a deployment hits a manual intervention. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-features-to-solutions-kofcabedt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From features to solutions | daily.dev og:description: Octopus Deploy's blog shows how to combine smaller features into a solution that notifies the right people when a deployment hits a manual intervention. It... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-features-to-solutions-kofcabedt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KOFcaBEDT.png og:image:alt: From features to solutions og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From features to solutions **[OctopusDeploy](https://daily.dev/sources/octopusdeploy)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Octopus Deploy's blog shows how to combine smaller features into a solution that notifies the right people when a deployment hits a manual intervention. It uses 2026.3 features: Slack workspace integration and webhook-triggered runbooks, plus a Terraform setup for subscriptions across spaces. A webhook sends the event payload to a runbook that uses the Octopus CLI, a Generic OIDC loopback account, and a Slack user mapping variable set to look up responsible team members and @mention them in Slack. The runbook script (Bash and PowerShell versions given) extracts deployment, environment, and task details via JSON path and Octostache filters, then posts a message with a deep link to the task. The Octopus CLI api command used requires CLI 2.21.0 or later. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I get Octopus Deploy to notify my team on Slack when a manual intervention is pending? Combine an Octopus subscription with a webhook-triggered runbook introduced in Octopus Deploy 2026.3. The subscription fires a webhook on the 'Created' event for 'Interruptions' documents, which triggers a runbook that reads the responsible team IDs from the payload, maps users to Slack IDs via a library variable set, and posts a custom @mention message using the built-in Slack step. _daily.dev surfaces practical deployment-automation patterns like this one for engineers wiring up CI/CD alerts._ ### Which Octopus Deploy CLI version do I need for the octopus api command to work on a worker? Octopus CLI 2.21.0 or later is required, since the api command was added in that release. Use the octopusdeploy/worker-tools ubuntu.24.04 execution container image or later; the older ubuntu.22.04 image only ships CLI version 2.20.1 and lacks the command. _Track CLI and execution container version requirements like these before they break a deployment worker setup._ ### How do I authenticate an Octopus Deploy runbook back to the same Octopus instance without storing an API key? Use a Generic OIDC Account configured as a loopback: add an OIDC identity to a service account with 'Other Issuer' type, the instance's public HTTPS URL as issuer, and a subject claim like space::runbook:. During the runbook run an OIDC token is issued to the service account and used with 'octopus login --id-token' to authenticate the CLI, avoiding any stored API key. _daily.dev helps engineers comparing OIDC loopback setups against API-key auth for internal automation._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Act faster with our new Slack integration](https://daily.dev/posts/act-faster-with-our-new-slack-integration-ewe8andex) · OctopusDeploy · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Octopus Easy Mode - Runbook Webhooks](https://daily.dev/posts/octopus-easy-mode---runbook-webhooks-isy5pdor1) · OctopusDeploy · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Terraform and Slack Integration: Notifications, Provider, ChatOps](https://daily.dev/posts/terraform-and-slack-integration-notifications-provider-chatops-tbilvwl0i) · Spacelift · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [From copy-paste to platform thinking](https://daily.dev/posts/from-copy-paste-to-platform-thinking-1ldqhritr) · OctopusDeploy · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#terraform](https://daily.dev/tags/terraform), [#slack](https://daily.dev/tags/slack), [#octopus-deploy](https://daily.dev/tags/octopus-deploy) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-features-to-solutions-kofcabedt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"From features to solutions","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-features-to-solutions-kofcabedt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-features-to-solutions-kofcabedt"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T12:29:08.412Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T12:38:38.522Z","description":"Octopus Deploy's blog shows how to combine smaller features into a solution that notifies the right people when a deployment hits a manual intervention. 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