I like the configuration transform capability in Octopus Deploy and make quite heavy use of it, however it does annoy me that the transforms for all environments are always written to the app directory on the target machine.
e.g. I have a windows service with 3 environment transforms:
Company.Service.exe
Company.Service.exe.config
Company.Service.exe.Development.config
Company.Service.exe.Test.config
Company.Service.exe.Production.config
It would be nice if on a machine, I only had the app config post transform e.g.
Company.Service.exe
Company.Service.exe.config (after Company.Service.exe.{Environment}.config has been applied}
Thanks for reaching out. The only way to do this is by adding a custom script that deletes the files you want.
We try to be safe-by-default and assume that if the user puts the file into the package, its because it wants it deployed. And if the user wants a certain package to be deleted, they can do so programatically using a Post-deploy script like this:
#List of files with .config extension to keep
$filesToKeep = ("web.config","App.config")
#deleting all .config files that are not in $FilesToKeep
Remove-Item *.config -Recurse -Exclude ($filesToKeep) -Verbose
please try it on a test environment first. I typed it without testing
