I have several dozen step templates that run scripts. I’d like to move those scripts over to GitHub. This way I can get all the benefits of source control for my scripts.
However, my concern is I want to be able to test my scripts in Octopus using a feature branch. I don’t want to create a new step template just to test them. Is it possible to have a single step template reference two packages?
Yes, that is possible. In a sense you will be creating two packages. One package will be for your “master” branch and the other package will be for your “beta” branch.
In the step template, create a variable to store the name of the branch you wish to use. Default that to Master.
Then reference that variable in the package selection in the step template.
For non-test projects, the branch name will remain as the default.
When a release is created it will find the version 1.0.0.2 of that package.
For the test project change that branch name to Beta.
Anytime a release is created for that project it will use the Beta package instead. In this case it found the latest version for that, which is 1.0.0.3.
