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

[AJ Christensen < >]

On 16 October 2012 11:33, Farzad FARID 
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 wrote:
> 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?

Yes we do, no it is not. We combine it with other systems. It's near
trivial to manage any number of (free, non-free) release management
systems / continuous integration facilities / archive storage systems.

Cheers,

AJ

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