Feature request: Expose Machine's hostname as System variable Octopus.Machine.<something>

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The “Environments” dashboard shows a hostname for each of the machines in each of my environments, however I cannot seem to get access to this in powershell scripts. For example, the attached image shows I have a machine on hostname “grid3” but I’ve named it “Grid3 - Internal”.

I have the following system variables available for it:

Octopus.Machine.Id = “machines-65”
Octopus.Machine.Name = “Grid3 - Internal”
Octopus.Machine.Roles =

but need the hostname “grid3” in my powershell script.

We’re running Octopus Deploy 2.5.7.384

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Hi Luke,

Thanks for getting in touch! As you are in PowerShell would $env:COMPUTERNAME suffice?
Please let me know if this is viable solution or not.

Vanessa

3

Yup that’s grand. I got so caught up with the Octopus variables because
I was writing a reusable script template that I forgot that it’s just
running powershell on the tentacle so I’ve got that whole playground at
my fingertips.

Thanks,

L.

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Sorry, it’s me again. I’d actually now like to use the Machine’s hostname in a Variable set (instead of a powershell script) so in this instance it’d be really useful to have this feature.

Thanks, L.

5

Hi Luke,

We have added an issue in GitHub to expose hostname as a variable.
You can track it here: https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/1228

Vanessa

6

This has now been implmented, the variable name is Octopus.Machine.Hostname. Could you guys please add it to the documentation (http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/System+variables) because it is really useful.

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Hi,

Thanks for the heads up! I just made the changes.

Regards,
Daniel