[chef] Re: application deployments

[KC Braunschweig < >]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:13 AM, JayP 
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 wrote:
> In addition I wanted to get some suggestions on how best to manage the 
> version
> number of the application rpm being deployed into qa/staging/production.  
> Since
> we have a separate continuous integration pipeline for our infrastructure 
> code
> (cookbooks) and the rev'ing of the cookbook in the production.json file is
> automated through our CI system I would rather not store the application rpm

Mapping application versions to environments is a good use for a data
bag. At my former company we did this initially and eventually
replaced the data bag with a separate web service that provided
similar data but could run custom business logic to manage version
promotion. This was for deploying maven artifacts (java shop) but a
similar strategy should work for rpm versions. I should bug those guys
about presenting on that stuff someday.

KC