Variables not being applied to config on Deploy

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I’m deploying a package that has 4 variables but only 1 of them is being applied to all the config files:

The following variables are available:

  • [DevInstanceNumber] = ‘3’
  • [DevEnvironmentNumber] = ‘1’
  • [DevDbInstance] = ‘ProductionMirror’
  • [OctopusPackageDirectoryPath] = ‘D:\Inetpub\Dev1\app0.dev.test.com’
  • [RipApplicationId] = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’
    Tasks will be run in the following order:
  • PowerShellPreDeployScript
  • CopyPackage
  • XmlConfigTransforms
  • XmlConfigVariables
  • PowerShellDeployScript
  • IisWebSite
  • DeletePackageFile
  • PowerShellPostDeployScript
    Looking for PowerShell scripts named PreDeploy.ps1
    No scripts with a .ps1 extension were found.
    Extracting package contents to 'D:\Inetpub\Dev1\app0.dev.test.com’
    Updating any .config files
    Scanning configuration file: D:\Inetpub\Dev1\app0.dev.test.com\Web.config
    Setting //appSettings/add[@key=‘ApplicationId’] to '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’
    Scanning configuration file: D:\Inetpub\Dev1\app0.dev.test.com\web.dev.uk.config
    Setting //appSettings/add[@key=‘ApplicationId’] to '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’
    Scanning configuration file: D:\Inetpub\Dev1\app0.dev.test.com\web.dev.us.config
    Setting //appSettings/add[@key=‘ApplicationId’] to '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’
    Looking for PowerShell scripts named Deploy.ps1

Thanks,

Bill

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Hi Bill,

Can you upload a copy of the .config files? (feel free to delete anything sensitive)

(You can mark this conversation as private if you like too)

Paul

4

Hi Bill,

The settings aren’t replaced inside the value - they are only replaced if the key matches. For example, this would work:

<add key="DevEnvironmentNumber" value="3" />
<add key="DevDbInstance" value="3" />

Octopus would update the value attributes of those elements based on the keys matching.

For a more complicated replacement, you would need to use a Deploy.ps1 PowerShell script to load the XML file and replace the contents.

Hope that helps,

Paul

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I’ve edited the application settings to show how our current deployment solution handles variables. (Straight find/replace scan of a file.)

Is this something that you would be interested in supporting?

Telling my DEV team to re-write code in every application to support a deployment solution is going to be a deal breaker.

Thanks,
Bill