Configure a Worker Pool to an ASG

[Naman.Kumar]

Is there a functionality where we can configure an ASG with Octo (ASG being not deployed via Octo) to pick workers for that pool dynamically from that ASG?

If not, can we consider this as a feature request?

[clare.martin]

Good afternoon @Naman.Kumar,

Thank you for contacting Octopus Support and great question about Octopus and auto-scaling groups.

I personally don’t have much experience configuring this but I did find this knowledge base article written by one of our solutions engineers, does that help at all?

Using Octopus Deploy AWS Auto-Scaling Groups

A common scenario we see is customers want to use Auto-Scaling groups to keep their cloud costs as low as possible. Keep only the minimal amount of VMs needed to handle an expected load. For example, you expect to have 1000 requests a second. You set up the necessary VMs to handle 1200 requests a second. When the number of requests gets to 900/second you add on some additional machines to handle that load. When that happens, how can you add a machine using Auto Scaling groups, get the laste…

Let me know if it does not and I will see what else I can find for you.

Kind Regards,
Clare

[clare.martin]

Sorry for the double post but I just found this blog post too which may help.

I think that is creating the workers using an ASG, which is what you are after, but that goes through creating it via Terraform so I am unsure if that article would suit your needs?

Kind Regards,
Clare