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

[howard chen < >]

Our currently workflow:

1. Jenkins build jar and upload to S3 - a fixed Uri
2. Have a recipe that fetch jar from the Uri and do the deploy. The
machines to be deploy have the role "java-web" for example, then
execute

knife ssh 'role:java-web' 'sudo chef-client'

That's all.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:33 AM, 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?
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Farzad FARID / Architecte Open Source
> Pragmatic Source / http://www.pragmatic-source.com
> Tel : +33 9 72 29 31 85 / Mob : +33 6 03 70 65 46
>