Time duration to install tentacle on 1700 machines

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Hi,
To install tentacle software on 1700 machines how much approx time would be required?
Link https://octopus.com/docs/installation/installing-tentacles/automating-tentacle-installation does help in making the installation easy, but can this be run from central location to install tentacles on all machines?
Please help

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Hi Pratik,

Thanks for reaching out! The instructions on that link should also apply for remote installation from a central location. Given the amount of machines you’ll be handling, I recommend you to go the Powershell DSC way.

As for the time It’ll take, I’m afraid that’s a bit harder to answer. If you run a single Tentacle installation from the Tentacle machine itself (not remotely), It usually takes between 5-10 seconds. But in your case there’s a few more things you’ll have to consider:

  • Latency between the Tentacle machine and the machine orchestrating the remote installations.

  • Latency between the the Tentacle machine and the Octopus Server (depending on the style of Tentacle you choose, It’ll try to reach out the Octopus Server or not).

  • Is the Tentacle installer going to be on the Tentacle machine, or is it going to be downloaded as part of your automated process? the 5-10 sec estimation is in the scenario where the Tentacle MSI is already sitting on the machine.

I definitely encourage you to spin up a few testVMs on the same network where your real Tentacle VMs are on right now, and test/measure this process against them. That’ll be the only way to get a reliable estimation on how long will this process take.

Hope that helps,
Dalmiro

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Thanks a lot for your response. Much appreciated
I will check this out and let you know soon!

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Hi, Can you please help me in understanding how the tentacle can be installed and configured and registered from central location?
I have the script that installs tentacle and registers itself to Octopus server.
But this needs to be executed on every machine individually.
Please advice how i can avoid running it on individual machine and making it run from central location?

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Hi Pratik,

I see that you submitted this question a few times. Robert W has provided the answer for you :slight_smile:

Vanessa