Question: Octopus URL system variable

[chriseldredge]

Is there a default variable for the canonical URL where the Octopus instance is running?

I have a template where I want to send a link to a deployment task, and I'd like to have some variable like Octopus.Web.BaseUrl that would be equal to something like https://my-octopus.example.com/.

I suppose this would be difficult since by default Octopus allows multiple host headers and ports to be bound to it, but would make life simpler for me.

[chriseldredge]

I can also require users of my template to specify this themselves, but it would be cleaner if I didn't have to do this.

[nblumhardt]

Hi Chris, thanks for the suggestion. We've had this request a few times already - it's a tricky one for the reasons you mention. In the template scenario though, just exposing our "best guess" would probably do the trick - e.g. Octopus.Web.BaseUrl could be the default parameter value, and users with more complex setups could override the default. It seems fairly straightforward, so I've popped it in: OctopusDeploy/Issues#1177