OctoLintInvalidTargetRoles

OctoLintInvalidTargetRoles returns a warning if any deployment target tags (roles) are named incorrectly, according to a specified regular expression.

Recommendation

In an Octopus deployment process, you assign certain steps to run on deployment targets with specific target tags.

Target tags (formerly target roles) are a filter to select specific deployment targets in an environment.

Our recommendations for target tags are:

• Avoid generic tags, such as web-server, whenever possible.
• Use specific tags, hello-world-api, to uniquely identify a project and component to deploy. Use those specific tags in your deployment process.
• Use architecture and platform-specific tags, for example, IIS-Server-Windows-2019. Use those tags for everyday maintenance tasks; updating to the latest version of Node.js, or installing a patch.

Remediation

Consider changing the deployment target tags (roles) to valid ones in both the machine records and any deployment or runbook processes which they relate to.