[chef] Re: how are people using the deploy_revision resource?

[Jon Wood < >]

On 19 October 2010 21:32, Andrew Willis 
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 wrote:
> How do you deal with the fact that the deploy may not work on a given 
> server?
> Capistrano is nice in that if it can't complete each one of its tasks on
> each server, it rolls back the deploy. And if you aren't using chef to do
> your app deploys, how do you do them?
>
I'm using it for deployment of any new applications at a client's
company, and the way we do it is to have a staging environment where
things are tested first. That environment is an identical clone of the
production one, except deployments come from a staging branch instead
of a production one. By running all deployments there first we can be
(relatively) certain it's not going to break when it hits production.

Jon