Octopus Deploy: Update Variables Without Creating New Release
That might be a new feature or not, maybe I'm just getting surprised by Octopus Deploy over and over again. In all projects I worked on so far, I always created a new release for any changes to variables. This might change.
Yesterday I had an awful phone call meeting with a smart-arse, but hey! we've got to see the silver lining in everything, right? I did learn something from him, so the meeting was not a completely waste of my time.
Apparently, we can update the variables in an existing release, so no need to create a new release. And that's how you do it:
I do love this feature, but to be very honest, I think that can be quite dangerous as well. It's quite easy to break a deployment because of variables.
Imagine this scenario:
- You have a release that is working all the way to production
- Someone for some reason update the variables for that release
- You create a new release with a new code base, deploy it and the deployment fails
- You now want to rollback to the previous release and this also fails because of the changes to variables
The feature is great, but I guess we just need to be cautions. And happy deployment!!!
Cheers
