If you are using Octopus Deploy as part of a continuous delivery pipeline, you’ll probably find that deployments don’t fail very often. This means that when they do, people probably need to be told about it.
Here is a simple email notification step that tells you when a deployment fails, including a reasonable amount of information about the failure.
The key parts of this email are the subject:
FAILURE! #{Octopus.Project.Name} - #{Octopus.Release.Number}
The body:
The following release has been created but FAILED TO DEPLOY to the #{Octopus.Environment.Name} environment:
#{Octopus.Project.Name} - #{Octopus.Release.Number}
Error details:
#{Octopus.Deployment.ErrorDetail}
And the Run Condition:
Failure: only run when a previous step failed