Deploy to just one of a set of machines identified by a role

We have a nuget package that contains a Deploy.ps1 that updates a central database server when it’s run. We don’t want to run the tentacle directly on the database server so instead it’s run on one chosen “deploy” server which is actually a CI build agent.

However, we have a number of build agents and ideally we’d like to say “of all the machines in this role, run this step on just one of them”. That way, if the nominated build agent is offline, we can still deploy. Is this possible, or is there another way to achieve the same effect?

Hi Michael,

Thanks for getting in touch! We have a current UserVoice suggestion that fits this scenario.
https://octopusdeploy.uservoice.com/admin/forums/170787-general/suggestions/6316906-support-run-on-any-tentacle-model-for-deployment
Please go and vote and comment to get this feature built.
I can see how this feature would be useful and pretty powerful in these situations, so lets see if we can get some movement on the suggestion.

Hope that helps!
Vanessa