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Thanks everyone who voted on this. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how best to version control Octopus configuration, and came to an approach that is a little different to what was imagined in this blog post. I just published an RFC post with our plans – I’d really appreciate if you could take a look and leave a comment!
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This would be very very helpful in helping us distinguish between multiple instances of OD.
Please implement!
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Along these lines, I think the needed functionality is being able to select the version of a step template to use as a part of a deployment process. This becomes important when you have many jobs using a step template and rollout of the changes can't be a "one-and-done" approach.
This idea has really forced us to re-evaluate how modifications to step templates occur on our systems; not just from a development standpoint but an impact to our customers standpoint. Essentially we've moved to a model where we artificially version the step templates with a version embedded in the name:
- My Template (v1.0)
- My Template (v1.1)
In this model step templates become immutable (except to fix bugs). New features are added as a new version of the template, there by not disturbing those who are using the older versions but making the new one available to those who want/need to use it.