[chef] Re: Serial deployment

[James Sulinski < >]

Rob,

I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but figured I'd toss it out there: 

It's possible to do something like this using Unicorn and nginx, without removing hosts from the proxy/load balancer. This assumes that you do "smoke testing" in a staging environment prior to deploying to production. The removal/warm up/addition process is no longer necessary: unicorn is capable of rolling restarts, and nginx can skip hosts which aren't ready using the proxy_next_upstream param. 

James

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Rob Guttman < "> > wrote:

We're just starting to use chef for managing nagios configs - so far, so good.

What we would like to eventually use it for is to deploy all of our web apps and services.  A specific use case we have is to be able to *serially* deploy to hosts/instances within a cluster behind a load balancer.  For example, we would take one host out of rotation, deploy to it, warm it up and/or smoke test, and when warming completes and/or if smoke tests pass then put it back into rotation and move on to the next host in the cluster.

How best to achieve that?

Thanks.
- Rob