Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Reworking based on feedback
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
BobJWalker committed Oct 18, 2023
1 parent 14cfbe4 commit 9deac40
Showing 1 changed file with 10 additions and 6 deletions.
16 changes: 10 additions & 6 deletions src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/task-cap.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ navOrder: 60
description: How to increase the task cap on an Octopus Cloud Instance.
---

Every Octopus Deploy instance has a task cap. The task cap is the number of concurrent tasks an instance can run. A task can be:
Every Octopus Deploy instance has set number of concurrent tasks it can process. That number of concurrent tasks is known as the Octopus Task Cap.

A task can be:

- Deployments
- Runbook run
Expand All @@ -30,19 +32,21 @@ The default task cap for Octopus Cloud instances is based on the license tier:
- Professional: 5
- Enterprise: 20

## Increasing the Task Cap
Self-hosted customers can change their instance's task cap via the Octopus Deploy UI. That is because self-hosted customers take on the responsibility of hosting their instance and allocating resources. They pay any additional hosting fees to their cloud providers.
Self-hosted customers have more control over their task cap. As such, every self-hosted instance starts out with a task cap of 5. A higher task cap requires more hosting resources. Self-hosted customers can change their instance's task cap via the Octopus Deploy UI. That is because self-hosted customers take on the responsibility of allocating resources, and paying any additional Azure, AWS, or GCP fees.

## Increasing the Task Cap for Octopus Cloud
Octopus Cloud customers must reach out to [email protected] to increase the task cap.

Octopus Cloud provides the following Task Cap options:
- Community: 5
- Professional: 5, 10, 20
- Enterprise: 20, 40, 80, 160

**Please note:** If you need a task cap higher than 160 please reach out to [email protected] to discuss your use case. These options are meant to cover the majority of use cases.
Increasing the task cap will incur a corresponding increase in platform fees. Deployments and runbook runs are computationally expensive. More concurrent deployments and runbook runs requires more resources from the Cloud Platform.

Deployments and runbook runs are computationally expensive. More concurrent deployments and runbook runs requires more resources from the Cloud Platform. As such, increasing the task cap increases your platform fee.
We assign resources to the instance based on the task cap. Changing the task cap changes those resources. That requires a small outage as the instance and database are reprovisioned. We will wait until your next maintenance window to perform that reprovisioning. You might not see a change in the task cap until the next day.

You can increase the task cap on your instance by contacting [email protected]. They will provide you with the latest fees and discuss options.
**Please note:** If you need a task cap higher than 160 please reach out to [email protected] to discuss your use case. These options are meant to cover the majority of use cases.

**Important:** 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, and 160 are the only options we offer. If you want an instance with a task cap above 160, again, reach out to [email protected]. There are no options between those tiers. For example, no Octopus Cloud instance can have a task cap of 15, 34, 45, or 68.

Expand Down

0 comments on commit 9deac40

Please sign in to comment.