Store files and refer to them locally

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Hello,

I’m trying to create a Powershell script that’ll upload archives to a storage container in Azure as a pre-deployment step, so a template can access them later.

Is it possible to store these zip files in Octopus and refer to them like you can with a variable? I know I can base64 encode them but would prefer something easier to manage in the future.

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Hi Stewart,

No this is not currently possible.

One solution that might work for you is if you can:

  • put the zip files you need to upload in another zip file (or NuGet package) and then
  • use a Deploy package step that uses that package and in either
    • a post-deploy script or
    • a separate script step you can upload the zip files stored within that package by using the Octopus.Action[StepName].Output.Package.InstallationDirectoryPath variable (where StepName is the name of the step that extracted the package.

I hope that helps somewhat!

Thank you and best regards,
Henrik