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Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.

Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.

It can refer to hardware, software, or both and has varying levels of automation, from the completely automated "no-touch" deployments to completely manual ones. Wikipedia has a page dedicated to software deployments here.

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puppetrun not reporting client errors

puppetrun doesn't report errors my puppetclients encounter. for instance, if I put jibberish into site.pp and run puppetd --test on the clients I get an error. if I run puppetrun on the puppetmaster it says the client finished with exit code 0. …
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Best Practices: How can admin deploy software to 100s of PC?

The Environment: I am working for a college. We have a couple of labs (about 100 PCs) for students. At the end of the semester, the PCs will be full of viruses, corrupt system files, all sorts of illegal downloads etc. (everything you can expect…
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Best Server Ghost-Like Tool For Windows

I'm looking for advice on which tool we should use to clone servers. In the short term, we will be cloning identical hardware but in the long run we may want to create one image and replicate that on a different class of machine. For example, as…
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Best practice on deploying MSIs via group policies: from dedicated share or from the AD itself?

For years I have been using GPOs to install MSIs to our Windows clients. All MSIs resided under a single \\fileserver\share, with a GPO assigned to each MSI for installation. Currently, out AD servers are Windows Server 2019 systems (DFS-R for…
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GPO silent software deployment

I have added a software package to my networks Computer Configuration in the Group Policy Management Editor for SBS 2008. I've noticed that even after adding the package, and rebooting a machine on the network several times, it doesn't seem to be…
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podman: rootless container: permissions for container user

In nginx podman container nginx user is used to run nginx server. On the host machine ls -alh: drwxrwx--- 2 myuser myuser 4.0K Aug 10 22:23 . drwxrwx--- 3 myuser myuser 4.0K Aug 10 22:59 .. -rw-rw---- 1 myuser myuser 46 Aug 10 22:24 .htpasswd The…
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How to copy ownership and permissions using rsync but not the files?

I am using AWS CodeDeploy to copy files from git to the server. It can't overwrite the files, so I have to move the files to another temp location and then it moves the files from the repo to the original server /var/www. I'd like to keep the…
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How to achieve rolling restart with systemd?

I have 2 servers started as independent systemd units. They are listening on port 3001 and 3002 respectively. I want to achieve a rolling restart (also known as rolling update or ramped update, more info on this deployment strategy). Here is the…
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How to deploy a script to auto update google chrome on a lot of hp thin clients?

The hurdle is that the thin client wipes and re-images itself every night and I have no access to group policy. Any ideas of deployment or the most efficient way to do this? What I do have access to is the following: Landesk - a program to connect…
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Free automatic deployment systems?

Are there any free systems for deploying new applications across a Windows network? e.g. if I wanted to automatically install Silverlight to every PC? (Assuming a Windows network of about 150 machines)
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Has anyone had trouble deploying Azure VM using Ubuntu 18.04 after March 8th?

I have a template based deployment that deploys our dev, staging, and production environments. This template has been working just fine since mid February. When I attempted to deploy the dev site the last friday (3/9/18) the script hung with the…
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docker stack deploy without downtime

I am following the Docker tutorial and do it in my own version version: "3.1" services: web: image: registry.gitlab.com/xxxx/xxxx:latest deploy: replicas: 2 ports: - "8888:80" mysql: …
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nginx reverse proxy setup to handle graceful deployments of upstream servers

My current setup is nginx as a load balancer, in front of a bunch of upstream servers. I want to be able to deploy with no change in user experience. This means no 502s and no increase page times. My understanding is that when nginx -s reload is…
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MAAS for diskless computational hpc cluster

I'm considering to use MAAS to deploy OS for a computational cluster. All nodes are diskless. Only head node and (probably) MAAS rack controller will have hard drives. It seems MAAS have to finish a node commissioning before using it, but how…
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Best deployment and configuration tool for servers with limited internet connection

I am looking for the best available option for a Linux server deployment and configuration management. Unfortunately this is not a typical scenario with servers placed in a data center. Instead we have multiple remote servers with limited internet…
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