Hello. I am new to Octopus and have searched online for an answer to my question with no success. I have a multiple Deployment Targets that each have around 45 Target Roles. I have been asked to add these Target Roles to 5 different Deployment Targets. So I basically have to manually copy 40+ Target Roles from 1 Deployment Target to another. Then do this another 4 times. Each Deployment Target has different Target Roles as well. Is there a scripted approach I could take that could export the Target Roles to a report and then import then to a different Deployment Target? I have been checking different Powershell options and API calls and have found nothing. It seems like it would be a common request.
Thanks for getting in touch! Welcome to Octopus, and I hope you’ve found it useful so far.
That certainly would be tedious to have to add 45 roles manually to multiple targets, and I’m surprised as well that I can’t seem to find a script to this specific task. The closest sample script I’ve found is to add a single role (which you specify in the script) to a target, which I’ll paste a link to below. You can add multiple by comma-separating the entries, i.e. line 10 could look like $machine.roles += ("Role1", "Role2", "Role3").
To get the roles already existing on another machine, you could do a GET on the machine, or you could use the system variable Octopus.Machine.Roles to get a list of roles assigned to the machine and then plug the results into the AddRoleToTarget.ps1 script.
I hope this helps! Let me know how you go or if you have any further questions going forward.
Thank you for the response Kenny. I am going to play around with this today and see where it takes me. It should be fun. Your info is very helpful. I’ll eventually reply with my results.
