Hundreds of Connection Strings

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We have a deployment scenario where one environment is expected to have a large number of machines, potentially hundreds.
The machines will share application code.
Unfortunately, due to issues outside our control, most of the machines will require different connection strings.

I would prefer not to keep such a large list of variables in Octopus Deploy as I think it will be a maintenance headache.
I would prefer to store the list of connection strings in a file that we can keep in source control.

My current plan is to have a file that lists all the machines and their connection strings and to process this file in a post build step to generate a configuration transformation file per machine that can be run using Octopus Deploy’s additional transforms capability.

Unfortunately this will result in rather a large number of files, so I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions.

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Ok, it looks like Variables work very nicely, thank you.

I’d like to be able to export the variables to a file that I can put in source control, as per this suggestion:

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Hi Arthur, currently there’s no way to export the variables. We’ll add support for this in Octopus 2.0.

Paul

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Is there any indication of when v2 will be available?

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Hi Graeme,

We’re aiming for September.

Paul