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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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Open Source PDF reader for windows as an alternative to Adobe reader

With the latest javascript vulnerabilities in Adobe reader and bloat it has aquired over the years, I've been thinking of moving the network I'm in charge of to a different product for PDF reading on Windows. The ideal PDF reader should be something…
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Are Elastic Beanstalk's environment variables an appropriate place to store secret values?

I have deployed my Django application to Elastic Beanstalk with the intention of using its environment variable configuration interface to store my API keys instead of storing them in my source (as described here…
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Upstart: allowing a normal user to stop and start my custom service

I have got my webserver application starting on boot using upstart. This is the upstart script: # web app node upstart file at /etc/init/webapp.conf description "web application" start on started mongodb stop on runlevel [06] respawn respawn…
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How to deploy Windows-8 Enterprise Apps to other users?

Windows-8 (Metro) Apps can be installed using "sideloading", bypassing the Windows store in enterprise environments. In principle this is easy: Once you enabled sideloading (which is automatically done when a Win8-machine joins a domain), you can…
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How do you do production IIS website depoys?

So, not sure if this is a Stack Overflow or a Server Fault question. If I have a .NET website that I want to deploy to the production environment, what's the best way to do so. Should I package it as an MSI & install? Use nant to push the needed…
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Deploying Django App with Nginx, Apache, mod_wsgi

I have a django app which can run locally using the standard development environment. I want to now move this to EC2 for production. The django documentation suggests running with apache and mod_wsgi, and using nginx for loading static files. I am…
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How to convince management to deploy to Virtual Machines

How would you 'sell' using VMs for production application servers? What are the compelling benefits in using them in that situation? I have to maintain a number of applications that are critical but are currently very light on resource need…
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Web Deploy to IIS 7 with Pass-through authentication

After much trial and error configuration, I'm currently able to script msdeploy.exe to deploy a package built in Visual Studio 2010 to a remote server running IIS 7.5 with a command line like: Basic authentication command: msdeploy…
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How can I convince my IT manager to upgrade the enterprise from IE6 to a newer browser?

We've already rolled out Windows XP SP2 (no hope of going to Vista or Windows 7 in the foreseeable future unfortunately) across the enterprise and our latest internal roll-out actually incorporates SP3 as well - but unfortunately IE is explicitly…
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Production deployment tools

Similar to building software, tools should be used to deploy production server updates (whether DB, website, router configurations, etc). The use of tools reduces certain types of human error (missed steps for example). What tools are available…
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Preloading docker images with an ISO for redistribution

We are developing an app that is to be deployed on site to various installations (not cloud). Our OEM partner is asking us to provide them with an ISO to be able to quickly provision new servers. Our app is built around containers and we have a…
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Automated graceful reload of gunicorn in production

I have an automated deployment workflow that pushes code out to my production servers and triggers database migrations, static file updates, etc. Problem is, gunicorn doesn't automatically reload code changes without the development option --reload,…
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Gitlab CI - Deploy via SSH to remote server

I have a Gitlab environment using Gitlab CI, for a new project to testify about the compiled files and copy via rsync to a production server. The machine where the build of these resources is exec is an image of docker (node 6), but now I have to…
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improve our deployment strategy

We have an ecommerce app that we develop at our company. Its a reasonably standard LAMP application that we have been developing on and off for about 3 years. We develop the application on a testing domain, here we add new features and fix bugs etc.…
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Which media was used to install Windows 7

I need to find out if a deployment of Windows 7 to a network was done with OEM, Retail, Volume or VL (VLK) media. I need to know which product was used in case it is what is causing some licensing problems that I'm experiencing. Where does this…
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