Sashimi are deprecated in favour of a new architecture for developing steps that focuses on providing a simplified development experience in a language other than .NET, named Step Packages.
In 2022, we found that the costs of having Sashimi flavours separated out across multiple repositories were outweighing the intended benefits, so we invested in reducing these development costs by consolidating Sashimi repositories. As the repository that contains the shared infrastructure for Sashimi flavours, this repository was consolidated into OctopusDeploy and Calamari. This repository is now only accepting bug fixes for the 2021.3 - 2022.3 LTS branches until their EOL.
Further info on this work can be found in our 🔒 Dependency Management documentation (internal).
This section is kept for historic context and facilitation of bug-fixing only, since Sashimi are now deprecated.
Sashimi are packages that express new steps and account types that Octopus Server can use.
Things named Sashimi.* produce a dll that will be loaded into Octopus Server itself, and provides components that extend server with a new step capability.
Things named Calamari.* produce an executable that will be sent via Tentacle to a target or worker to do the work of the new step.
Each Sashimi.* repository (example), sometimes referred to as a "flavour" 🌮, will contain a "slice of Sashimi", and a Calamari. This is is to say - it will provide the bits that extend server, and the thing that does the work of the step. These things work together to make steps work for Octopus Server.
There are some intermediary libraries named Sashimi.* and Calamari.* like those located within this repository, or in the Calamari repository. With these libraries, you can assume Sashimi.* libraries will be consumed by a Sashimi extension, and Calamari.* libraries will be consumed by a Calamari executable. We will never cross the streams between Sashimi and Calamari.
Limitations:
- Sashimi do not provide step UI. All required UI for Sashimi steps is still packaged within the Octopus Server web portal
For further information see the Sashimi Wiki