[chef] Re: Triggering chef runs/deploys:

[Jon Wood < >]

On 26 August 2010 06:25, Leinartas, Michael
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 wrote:
> So I'm at the point in my chef buildout that I need to start working on
> application deploys.  The deploy resource is clear enough to work with.  My
> question is, how do I trigger a deployment?
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One option would be to create a data bag for applications, and trigger
deployments based on changes to those (possibly put the revision you
want deployed into the data bag so that the right version hits the
production servers). Alternatively, you might be better off using a
different tool for application deployments if continuous deployment
isn't something you want to do.

I'm curious as to what the problem you see with branching is though.
As well as providing an easy place for Chef to hook into, it provides
you with one place that everybody knows is the production code, so
there's never any doubt as to which version is on the production
servers.

Jon