I have a rolling deployment that deploys to multiple tentacles - several at a time.
From one tentacle I want to detect the deployment status of another tentacle. I want tentacle B to wait until tentacle A is at a certain point in the deployment process. So I created a step where tentacle A sets the value of an output variable. Then I have a powershell step that tentacle B uses that enumerates through $OctopusParameters to find the output variable. If it isn’t found, it sleeps and loops until it is set.
However, if the “look for the variable” step of tentacle B starts before the variable is set by tentacle A, tentacle B will never see the value - even after the value is set by tentacle A.
- Is that expected behavior?
- Is there some other way to accomplish what I’m trying to do?
Hi Jake,
Thanks for getting in touch! I am sorry to say I don’t think I have a great answer for you.
Output variables are only available after a step completes and are only evaluated for a step before it begins. So constantly looping through the output variables on B will not produce the correct results as they never change, unless A has already completed before B starts.
to work with this behaviour you would have to be sure that A completed first before B started.
Sometimes customers will try to get around this by creating a file during a set of steps using PowerShell as either a lock or a variable storage, you could experiment with that. It is all I can really think of for this specific scenario.
Sorry if it isn’t the answer you were hoping for.
Vanessa
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