On Nov 30, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Schofield wrote: > I am at the beginning of merging the traditional OS/Middleware update process > with application development release process. The goal is to be able to test > a complete versioned OS/Middleware/Application stack as it moves through > dev/test/qa/prod environments. The key here is that entire stack is labeled > under a single version. In other terms, the node and everything on it is > aligned under a single version. Right now the OS/Middleware is managed by > puppet. The application release process is not. I'm hoping some folks would > like to comment on the following questions I am pondering. > • How to best version puppet classes and control the classification of > nodes based on the version of the node? > • Are there ENC's that integrate with SVN/GIT that make this easy? > • Should application deployment be brought under the control of puppet? > • If so how do you easily do this without burdening applications > developers with having to learn something about or have access to puppet? > • Is there a puppet API that an existing application release processes > can leverage to trigger OS/Middleware updates when an application version is > updated? > Looking forward to your comments. ---- I think the general consensus is that puppet is less than optimal for most software deployments and there are better tools for the job (for example, we use capistrano here).
Puppet is more of a configuration management tool and I suspect that even if you could shoehorn your software deployment needs into something that puppet could manage, it would probably be slow and confusing. As for ENC's and 'developer' access, I use foreman (http://theforeman.org) to provide 'other' user access and I can contain their rights/access within foreman and yet still, allow them to say install NGINX (with all of it's pre-requisite packages) from a web based GUI. Again, seriously look at capistrano for handling software deployments and I'm sure that there's others that can do the job too. Craig -- 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.
