The built in Manual intervention step is great, but we are a small team so having people in fixed “deployment” or “sign off” roles will not always be practical. What I’d like to achieve is a dual-control / dual sign-off procvedure where 2 different people have to be involved in the deployment procedure.
The manual intervention doesn’t support this (though perhaps that would be a good feature to add in future).
My idea is simply to include a script step after the manual intervention which throws an error if the user who started the release is the same as the user who performed the manual interventions step. Alternatively, I could use 2 or more manual intervention steps and compare the users for each for more complex senarios.
In any case, I’ve been doing this as below as a first test:
$createdBy = $OctopusParameters[“Octopus.Deployment.CreatedBy.Username”]
$signoffBy = $OctopusParameters[“Octopus.Action[SignOff].Output.ResponsibleUser.Username”]
Write-Host "Release started by: $createdBy"
Write-Host “Release signed off by: $signoffBy”
But no matter what I do, the $signoffBy variable is always null. If I try in C# I get a “Key not Found” exception, in powershell it just writes an empty string to the output.
I’m sure the step name is correct and I’ve tried all the different options I can think of. Can anyone tell me either:
- Is there a better / existing way to achieve this
- What I’m doing wrong in my script above?
Kind regards,
Alexander
Additional info:
Version: Octopus 3.5.1
Full Log:
Task ID: ServerTasks-399
Task status: Success
Task queued: 25 November 2016 13:11
Task started: 25 November 2016 13:11
Task duration: 19 seconds
Server version: 3.5.1+Branch.master.Sha.4feefbec21f18bc1b1908b5721dd03570fec86a6
| == Success: Deploy Test release 0.0.11 to Integration ==
13:11:09 Verbose | Guided failure is not enabled for this task
13:11:25 Info | Deploy Test release 0.0.11 to Integration
13:11:25 Verbose | Guided failure is not enabled for this task
13:11:28 Info | The deployment completed successfully.
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| == Success: Step 1: SignOff ==
13:11:25 Verbose | Resuming after completion
13:11:25 Info | Submitted by: Alexander Harris
13:11:25 Verbose | SignOff completed
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| Success: Octopus Server
13:11:09 Verbose | Octopus Server version: 3.5.1+Branch.master.Sha.4feefbec21f18bc1b1908b5721dd03570fec86a6
13:11:09 Info | Pausing the deployment while manual intervention is requested
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| == Success: Step 2: Dual Control ==
13:11:28 Verbose | Dual Control completed
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| Success: MyIntegrationServer
13:11:25 Verbose | Octopus Server version: 3.5.1+Branch.master.Sha.4feefbec21f18bc1b1908b5721dd03570fec86a6
13:11:26 Info | Unpacking Calamari version 3.5.3 to 'D:\Octopus\Calamari\Local\3.5.3'
13:11:26 Verbose | Cleaning up old versions of Calamari...
13:11:27 Verbose | Keeping only latest Calamari version 3.5.3...
13:11:27 Verbose | Octopus Deploy: Calamari version 0.0.0
13:11:28 Info | WARNING: The names of some imported commands from the module 'RationalTeamCity'
13:11:28 Info | include unapproved verbs that might make them less discoverable. To find the
13:11:28 Info | commands with unapproved verbs, run the Import-Module command again with the
13:11:28 Info | Verbose parameter. For a list of approved verbs, type Get-Verb.
13:11:28 Verbose | Name Value
13:11:28 Verbose | ---- -----
13:11:28 Verbose | PSVersion 3.0
13:11:28 Verbose | WSManStackVersion 3.0
13:11:28 Verbose | SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
13:11:28 Verbose | CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
13:11:28 Verbose | BuildVersion 6.2.9200.16398
13:11:28 Verbose | PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0}
13:11:28 Verbose | PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.2
13:11:28 Info | Release started by: alexanderh
13:11:28 Info | Release signed off by:
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So having dug around some more, I see the correct variable name is:
Octopus.Action[StepName].Output.Manual.ResponsibleUser.Username
NB the “Manual” in the title.
I based my initial code on: http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/System+variables where the variable name doesn’t include the “Manual” part. Updated info I found here http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/Output+variables
I don’t quite understand why there is this difference or if I just missed the subtleties of use.
Hi Alexander,
I was just starting to look into this when I saw your reply. I’ve confirmed that the documentation is incorrect and that the Manual part should be included. I’ve updated it now.
Thank you for letting us know!
Robert W
Hi Robert,
No worries, glad to have found the solution and thanks for looking into it.
Alexander