How do I remotely deploy a software package on Linux system?

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I have a software package I wrote in Mono and I want to be able to deploy it to Ubuntu server as part of my move to continuous integration and deployment work flow.

I was wondering if there is a tool to help me do that, some of the tasks I will need is

Register a new domain/hostname with linux
Install packaegs using apt-et
Copy files
Run some bash scripts

What are the solutions to streamline this process to automate, I understand that is more then one answer to this, I would love to hear all the methods pros and cons.

Thank you

Questions with multiple answers like this are typically marked "Community Wiki" -- but I'm not sure how to do that. — Kyle Smith, Mar 25 '12 at 16:31
Did you do any research at all on this? There's dozens of tools that you can use for this. — devicenull, Mar 26 '12 at 03:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '12 at 16:47

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There's at least chef, puppet, fabric, capistrano, cdist, bcfg2, cfengine and lots of other tools in this space.

You can also just cook something together yourself using ssh, public key authentication and some creative scripting.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '12 at 16:31

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At my company we use Jenkins.

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Does it deploy? I use Teamcity as a CI – David MZ Mar 25 '12 at 16:37
I don't work directly with our BRI/CI team, but I believe they use scripts attached to Jenkins to install and uninstall our software during the CI cycle. – Kyle Smith Mar 25 '12 at 17:29

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '12 at 16:33

Well, a very good but also "complex" solutions to beginners is Cfengine. An agent makes sure that each Cfengine-run some predefined Cfengine-scripts. Those scripts are able to configure your system, run shell commands and scripts, perform a number of various tasks and therefore is able to serve as an unattended configuration agent.

View more information here: http://cfengine.com/

How do I remotely deploy a software package on Linux system?

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