[Chicago] deployment tools

[Jason Abate]

I've done a decently-sized deployment automation using Puppet 
(http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/), which might be another tool 
to consider.  It takes a descent up-front investment to get everything 
setup and configured, but the payoff can be worth it if depending on how 
many deployments you'll be doing, and how much the ongoing maintenance 
of deployed servers will consume.  In our case, we have a network of 
about 25 monitoring servers deployed across the globe, and can bring a 
newly imaged server online in less than five minutes with only three 
commands.  Plus updates and configuration changes are automatically 
deployed to all servers without an admin having to ssh in.

The only downside I see of Puppet is that it uses Ruby :-)  I had hoped 
to catch the Bcfg2 talk last week but couldn't make it.  We'll be taking 
a closer look at that to see if it might be something we want to move to 
in the future. 

-jason

Jason Abate
Panopta | We see it all
jason at panopta.com
http://www.panopta.com



Garrett Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Milan Andric<mandric at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Garret, my initial approach is to use shell scripting until it gets
>> too ugly or needs some tricky features and then port it to python.
>> It's true shell is more transparent here as well since we have no
>> python code in production yet ... still I imagine the team will prefer
>> python over shell.
>>     
>
> If you think the complexity of your code will require Python, even if
> down the road, over bash scripting, it's probably worth the cost to
> adopt/experiment with some of these management frameworks.
>
> It'll be interesting to hear your experience with whatever you end up
> doing. I hope you report back at some point!
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