[chef] How do you use Chef for Release Management?

[Farzad FARID < >]

Hi,

The use of Chef, or similar software like Puppet or Cfengine, for 
Configuration Management is an undisputed choice (in my opinion of 
course!), but what about Release Management?

An IT facilities management company's architect tried to convince me 
that tools like Chef are not adequate from handling software releases & 
deployment (here I'm talking about Java/Tomcat applications) and that we 
should use their costly proprietary platform instead...

What is your opinion? Do you use Chef for Release Management, is it the 
perfect tool in this field too?

Regards

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Farzad FARID / Architecte Open Source
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