From 744f77569e6f2e5eb0f47ab262e75af688cd901b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ray Nham Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 12:12:24 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] added: DW page - disk space limitation section --- src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md b/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md index aef334359a..2d6b5e8872 100644 --- a/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md +++ b/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md @@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ We recommend customers who would benefit from scalable workers consider [Kuberne Dynamic workers are created on demand and leased to an Octopus Cloud instance for a limited time [before being destroyed](/docs/infrastructure/workers/dynamic-worker-pools#on-demand). Dynamic workers are destroyed when they have been idle for 60 minutes or when they reached 72 hours of existence. All data written to disk is lost upon worker destruction. +### Disk space + +Dynamic workers run on virtual machines with a fixed disk. The amount of free space available to your deployments and runbook runs is bounded, and may be consumed by package downloads, container image pulls, and intermediate files created during a step. Workloads that regularly process large packages, pull large container images, or run many parallel steps may exhaust the available disk and cause the step to fail. + +If your workloads need more disk headroom than dynamic workers provide, consider [Kubernetes workers](/docs/infrastructure/workers/kubernetes-worker) or [external workers](/docs/infrastructure/workers#external-workers), where you control the disk size and lifecycle. + ### Installed software Dynamic workers come with a small number of [baseline tools](/docs/infrastructure/workers/dynamic-worker-pools#available-dynamic-worker-images) installed. The version of baseline tools may be updated between worker leases. From cd74c5c929ffe82b4a9c0de0316ce39915c5e29a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ray Nham Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 12:46:41 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fixed: lint error --- src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md b/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md index 2d6b5e8872..95c0292305 100644 --- a/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md +++ b/src/pages/docs/octopus-cloud/dynamic-worker.md @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Customers may choose between Windows and Ubuntu virtual machine images for their Your Octopus Cloud [task cap](/docs/octopus-cloud/task-cap) determines the resources available to your dynamic worker. As at January 2025, dynamic worker virtual machines are resourced as follows. These specifications may be adjusted over time. -| Task cap | vCPUs (Qty.) | Memory (GB) | +| Task cap | vCPUs (Qty.) | Memory (GB) | | -----: | ------: | ------: | | 5 | 2 | 4 | | 10 | 4 | 8 |