[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: application deployments

[Jason Perry < >]

Thanks for all the great info.  It really helps in my decision of what 
direction to go.

Thanks,
  -- Jay

On Jul 13, 2012, at 4:19 PM, KC Braunschweig 
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> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Jay Perry 
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>> And also a follow up to the CI Server, when you build a newer version of
>> your application did you have your CI server check in the data bag before
>> pushing to the chef server?  Did you ever run into any issues with this
>> approach?
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> The databag based solution was gone before it mattered. However this
> should be manageable. The CI server creates your versioned artifact
> and puts it in a repo (maven artifacts in nexus in our case). This
> should always happen first. You make the version available but nothing
> will use it. Then you update your databag or whatever to tell an
> environment to use the new version you made available. No node takes
> action based on the repo so the only thing to work around is what if
> your upload of the data bag fails? You probably can start with manual
> intervention at that point because you have a bug in your CI code
> generating a bad databag item or your chef server is hosed and you
> have bigger problems.
> 
> KC