Octopus models your platform-as-a-service endpoints as deployment targets. Read more PaaS targets blog: PaaS deployment targets.
Octopus’s Azure targets provide a reference to actual targets in your Azure infrastructure, allowing you to target several PaaS products by target tag during a deployment. Azure targets are added the same way as regular deployment targets and go through health checks, so you know the status of your Azure infrastructure targets and can spot any problems.
The currently supported Azure targets are:
- Azure Service Fabric Clusters.
- Azure Web Apps (also works for Azure Functions).
- Azure Kubernetes Service via the Kubernetes Agent and Kubernetes API deployment targets.
- Azure VM via Tentacle using Desired State Configuration (DSC).
Azure Cloud Services are no longer supported in Octopus Deploy as of 2025.1.
Microsoft has deprecated these Azure services, and as of October 1st 2024 shut down existing Cloud Service deployments. (Source)