SSH Connections

Octopus does not have any agents for connecting to the remote systems. Instead it uses SSH protocol. This approach has some benefits like more secure connections, easy to connect remote machines, less management overheads, etc.. You can use SSH Connection when you want to execute a script on a remote machine. Make sure the remote system has a running ssh server and enter the login information for the ssh server on the connection definition panel in octopus and test whether it works.

Octopus does not support key based ssh authentication for now but it will definitely have that feature before the 1.0 release.