Octopus Deploy On Same Machine

Question

I've just started using this tool and so far it seems brilliant. I'm struggling to get my head around how to organise this in the tool though.

I have a website and an api to deploy.

I have one project set up and three environments, staging, UAT and live.

I have one tentacle with two roles all executing on my development machine.

I can see the deployments to the environments being built in the Apps directory.

What I'm struggling with is getting my head around how these different players should be configured.

What I'm struggling with is that on the same machine I want the two steps ( Api step, web step) to do something different based on the environment.

So when deploying api step to staging it also goes to C:\staging\api but when deploying to uat it goes to C:\uat\api.

I can't see how I can get it to do this since a step is defined separately to environments as far as I can tell.

It seems octopus deploy assumes there are at least two machines involved in which case you'd never want to do this anyway, at least I can't think you would.

Is this arrangement possible in Octo?

Answer 1

What I ended up doing was separating out the scripts into two bundles rather than having a bundle shared between the steps.

Eventually the bundles will contain separate scripts so this makes more sense in the long run anyway.

I then added a step for each bundle in the Octopus Deploy project.

Ideally this would be in two projects however I'm only using the trial version at the moment.

Answer 2

You should be able to use variables to achieve what you are after.