Stop current step and force fail

[DG]

It would be helpful to have a way to stop the current step during a Release and have the option to force it to fail, retry, or skip it. This would be especially helpful when a step gets hung-up for way too long. Would allow intervention without killing the whole deployment process in the middle, leaving steps undone, and forcing to create another release and spending way more unnecessary over something small that could be handled right then and there.

[Alex.Rolley]

Hi @DG

Thanks for getting in touch!

While I can see that in some cases this would be a useful addition, I have to be honest and with our current development schedule I just don’t see us implementing this feature anytime soon. I would recommend raising this via uservoice so we can gauge how much interest there is in the Octopus community.

Sorry that I don’t have better news for you,

Regards,
Alex

[DG]

For anyone that stumbles across this post, I’m following up with this post as it may be a solution. Not sure if it works yet as of 9/17/2019

How to set timeout to fail long running deployment step (powershell)?

We utilize Library Step Template ‘IIS Application - Create’. For some reason Octopus hangs on that step during deployment indefinitely, blocking other deployment on the same target. Is it possible to add timeout and fail the deployment step either as Octopus Process setting or PowerShell script code ?

[DG]

Here is another post of someone trying to handle the issue:

Forcefully fail/retry a step for particular machine

Hi, I understand there is a Guided failure for scenario where it fails and we want to introduce manual intervention. This works like a charm when there is an error visible to Octopus. But what if a step is stuck for a long time due to an internal error and is not visible to Octopus? Is there a way for Octopus to ignore it and move forward or at least fail that step for particular machine. For example, if a step is executing for 5 machines in parallel and it is completed for 4 machines but stuc…

Here is an existing “User Voice” post where someone already put in the request and everyone can vote on it. This also contains a PowerShell script for an Ocopus dev to try to handle this as well
https://octopusdeploy.uservoice.com/forums/170787-general/suggestions/6396476-add-timeout-support-for-individual-steps-and-overa