You are using the free version of Octopus Deploy, which only allows 1 active node. You currently have 2 active nodes

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Without knowingly changing our server setup, we’re getting the error “You are using the free version of Octopus Deploy, which only allows 1 active node. You currently have 2 active nodes.” when we’re trying to create a release. We don’t have clusters or anything like that, just one octo server with 5 tentacles and 2 environments.

What does this mean?

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Hi Marcus,

Thanks for getting in touch! That error means you have 2 instances of the Octopus server running. Perhaps you have an old Octopus Deploy server that you are not using anymore but its service is still running?

Thanks,

Dalmiro

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I’m not sure how that could be. The only things that spring to mind are:

  • Octopus server is installed on a VM, which is deleted each evening and recreated each morning from the same image each day. Could this cause this? There’s definitely only one instance running though - the previous day’s VM is destroyed.
  • We upgraded to 3.0 last week. Not sure if this could be related.

Any ideas?

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Hi Marcus,

Each time the VM is re-created, does it get a new name?

Inside the Octopus SQL database is a table called OctopusServerNode, and there should only be one record in this table. The records are identified by a node ID which is usually just the machine name, so if the machines get different names it would explain the problem. What does your table look like?

Paul

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Ah perfect - I think one time it was recreated it got a new name, but
otherwise it’s the same name every time. So I’ve deleted the extra entry
in that table and all works now. Thanks!