I agree with Justin, we use controltier (essentially rundeck) for this. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Justin Ellison <jus...@techadvise.com>wrote:
> IMO, Puppet isn't quite the right fit for application deployments in a lot > of situations. In Drupal-speak - if you have multiple Drupal frontends > with a shared MySQL backend, Puppet doesn't fit for deployments very well. > What you need in that case is an orchestration tool. > > Why? Puppet cares about state, but it's not the best thing for applying > states to machines at a certain time in a certain order. Often times with > Drupal, you have a workflow to complete as part of a deployment: 1) Put up > the maintenance page 2) Upgrade the application server code 3) Upgrade the > db. If the DB gets upgraded before all the appservers are running the > latest code, fun ensues. > > There's all kinds of tools that are more ideal for that - Jenkins, > Capistrano, MCollective, and Rundeck are a few. > > We use Puppet to initially setup a machine to participate in the cluster. > When provisioned, it will have the same revision of code as everything > else. However, for coordinated deployments of already deployed > applications, we rely upon other tools. > > HTH, > > Justin > > > On Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:05:01 PM UTC-5, Will S. G. wrote: >> >> I'm trying to convince my company to use puppet as the release management >> engine to publish the bits for Drupal to the web servers. The reason why I >> want this is to cut off the developers from production, but also create a >> process and procedure for code release to the stage and production >> environments. While this is possible, my question is, do you use puppet in >> such manner? >> >> Thanks. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/O9ktBPgbcPoJ. > > 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. > -- 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.
