Required steps
Make it possible to mark a step as not being able to be skipped.
AdminPaul Stovell
(Founder, Octopus Deploy)
shared this idea
This was implemented in Octopus 2018.4: https://octopus.com/blog/octopus-release-2018.4
7 comments
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Paul Kelly
commented
the trail of breadcrumbs leads here for what would seem a fairly simple addition to an awesome product - i.e. the ability to permission the disabling of steps in an Octopus process (at design or deploy-time) such that steps can be made mandatory (unless you're an Octo admin).
Arrived here from:
https://octopus.com/blog/rfc-composite-step-templates
then
https://octopusdeploy.uservoice.com/forums/170787-general/suggestions/6511629-add-permissions-to-stop-deployers-from-skipping-st
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Jerry Nothstine
commented
Like others have said, I would love to have a step that cannot be skipped. I have a current task where this feature would make it a lot simpler to make sure it gets done.
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Tim Cartwright
commented
I agree that this should be available. Users being able to skip certain steps can cause us many issues.
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Anonymous
commented
Would love to see this. We have an "Initialize" step that sets some variables used in downstream steps, so this one must always be selected. Would prefer to mark it as mandatory so it is just grayed out and can't be skipped by accident. This would particularly be useful when an error occurred near the end of our 40-step project, so a user could choose "Skip All," then reenable the failed task(s) only. Otherwise, the user has to carefully scroll down to find the "Initialize" step which is not at the very top due to package download steps, and remember to click that. Thanks.
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Daniel Robertson
commented
We are also working in a regulated environment. Auditing and various checks are required, for example, querying our change management API to ensure that a particular change has been approved for the time of deployment. Only having people with the right access being able to skip is a step is highly desirable, however someone could still simply remove or disable the step in a process. What would also be idea is a step level permission set. e.g. certain steps that only an admin could add, edit or remove from a process. Possibly even an "admin" step that is always included in every new project, or retro-fitted to every existing one.
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Blair Paine
commented
We also require this feature. I like the functionality which allows users to skip steps but there should be some controls as to the extent.
Working in financial services means we have to be very particular about controls and what can and cannot be executed. While we could see after the event if someone has skipped a step, I would rather prevent it happening (where appropriate to do so) in the first place.
For example, we have a project with a step which gathers facts. This step needs to collect information used in multiple steps throughout the deployment. These facts could be used in any step. With the current setup I would have to include code in every step to validate and check the step was executed in case the end user skipped it.
Suggestions:
If you have the right permissions (i.e. administrator) then you could go into the options for a selected step and select a "prevent user skip" option or similar.Another possibility is to have only an administrator or someone with high enough privileges could "override" the option at run-time.
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Tim Walker
commented
This is exactly what we need.
We have a windows service deployment project.
Having the steps that stop and restart the service as non-skipable would be nice.