Tentacle.exe register-with multiple environments

josh.williams · 18 February 2016 20:29

In the servers UI, when adding a deploy target you can specify multiple environments. Reading the documentation for tentacle.exe help register-with, it says you can have multiple --role tags, but not --environment tags. Is there a reason for this? Can I not tag an instance with multiple environments when using an automated install script?

Dalmiro · 20 February 2016 20:43

Hi Josh,

Thanks for reaching out. Your suggestion makes sense and I’ve added a github issue to see if we can implement it: https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/2382

What you can currently do is use Tentacle.exe to create the Tentacle, remove the call to register-with and instead do it using the API. You can use this API script or this other cmdlet from the Octoposh module.

Hope that helps,
Dalmiro

gsandoval · 13 October 2016 20:09

Hi Josh,
Please see this link it will take you to the .ps1 which will allow you to do this, I have it in JSON format right now as I have it in my CloudFormation Template in AWS but will post the Actual .ps1 soon if you have trouble removing the JSON syntax.

github.com

gabe1314/InstallOctopusTentaclePassiveRenameHostToAWSInstanceIDRegister1EnvW-3Roles/blob/master/OctoTntcle1EnvW3Roles.json

"C:\\cfn\\octopustentacle.ps1": {
                "content": {
                  "Fn::Join": [
                    "", [
                      "Start-Transcript -path \"E:\\Octopus\\TentacleInstallLog.txt\"", "\n",
                      "$tentacleDownloadPath = \"https://download.octopusdeploy.com/octopus/Octopus.Tentacle.3.3.3-x64.msi\"", "\n",                        
                      "$octopusServerThumbprint = \"YOUR_OWN_OCTOPUS_THUMBPRINT\"", "\n",
                      "$tentacleListenPort = 10933\n",
                      "$tentacleHomeDirectory = \"E:\\Octopus\"", "\n",
                      "$tentacleAppDirectory = \"E:\\Octopus\\Applications\"", "\n",
                      "$tentacleConfigFile = \"E:\\Octopus\\Tentacle\\Tentacle.config\"", "\n",

                      "function Download-File\n",
                      "{\n",
                      "param ( \n",
                      "[string] $url,\n",
                      "[string] $saveAs \n",
                      ")\n",

                      "Write-Host \"Downloading\" $url to $saveAs\n",

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