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

[Thom May < >]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:33 PM, 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?

Perfect? no. as AJ says, it's a piece of the puzzle. My experience is that
Release Management is far more tightly coupled to a company's process
than CM, and you're much more likely to build something using off the shelf
components (like Jenkins and Artifactory and Chef and probably an MQ)
that will work for you than paying big dollar for a generic solution.
-t