If you want something simple and don't need a GUI, many folks are using either Capistrano (Ruby) or the very similar Fabric (Python) for deployment. You can populate hostlists via Foreman queries. That said, I am not sure what sort of integration with Puppet/Foreman you are looking for.
Cheers, Brian On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Ashley Penney <apen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- <http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/> -- 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.
