I know this has come up on the list numerous times before but I thought it would be a good time to see if the state of the art has advanced for this kind of thing. I wanted to know how people are handling higher level deployment of applications - things that have to be done repeatedly but not all the time. An example of this is checking an application out of svn, building it, creating a package and then moving it off to a repo. Or even just building/installing locally for developers.
It never seems to fit well into Puppet for me and I end up with crazy complicated manifests to deal with this kind of thing. I recently moved these jobs into Rundeck (www.rundeck.org) which works pretty well but doesn't really leverage any of the stuff I have within Foreman/Puppet. I've seen suggestions to use mcollective but this doesn't easily integrate our existing scripts (written in many languages) or processes and would require me to force a lot of developers to work differently. I could just have classes that trigger scripts only when some condition is met (like /.buildapp files) or something along those lines but nothing seems elegant. What I'm trying to find out is what other people did to handle this? I want something I can build up over time and slowly migrate legacy apps and processes into without having to do a massive up front development. It should also be relatively simple and not require me to code anything as anyone on the list who knows me can tell you that I am absolutely awful at coding. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
