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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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Upgrade software package installed with GPO

Since recently I have been using AD policies to deploy software packages through GPO on a small domain. This had been working well, but I am not sure what is the correct procedure for upgrading a package. Assuming that I have initially deployed X,…
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Risks of using django manage.py runserver for production in a small scale server, for internal use?

I am writing a small web-app with django. It will have no more than 200 users, all internal to my company. I want to set it up as quickly as possible. I am new to django and web-apps. As I read django's tutorial, they don't recommend using python…
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Ansible, Chef, Puppet or ____ : Which has the strongest Windows support and smallest init footprint

We do mostly (but not exclusively) win servers. Preferably, we can start the OS and do little or nothing to it to make it ready to receive commands (we know we may need to create a base image with an agent or ssh server on it). Need to be able to…
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deploy ssh key from master to minion via salt pillars

I have two ssh keys that I'm trying to deploy to one of my minions. But I can't seem to get it to deploy. It errors out. Here is the init.sls in pillars: /xxx/yyy/zzz/id_rsa: file.managed: - source:…
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SSH does not allow the use of a key with group readable permissions

I have a development git server that deploys to a live server when the live branch is pushed to. Every user has their own login and therefore the post-receive hook which does the live deployment is run under their own user. Because I don't want to…
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Test-driven development for infrastructure deployments?

I've been using puppet for deployment of infrastructure, and most of the work I do is with Web 2.0 companies who are heavily into test-driven development for their web application. Does anyone here use a test-driven approach to developing their…
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Deploying Files To Multiple Servers

We have a central repository of files in say server-1 at /srv/www. Then we have N number of servers as well. We want server-1 to be able to deploy its files in /srv/www to all servers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Is there something like…
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How to deploy applications (in .tar.gz) with Puppet?

I'm a beginner with Puppet and I would like to know if I'm on the right way to deploy applications with Puppet. The applciations are in a tar.gz file which contains a file with the version number. So, I do this to deploy (I go on the server and do a…
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Can not see "Management Service Delegation" option in IIS 7

I have installed Management Services on IIS, and want to configure for Web Deploy. At Server level I can see Mangagement Service, Feature Delegation, IIS Managers, etc I also have IIS6 management installed, but as this is a production server I…
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How do you deploy your .NET Web Application? (Recommendations, please!)

We've recently upgraded our ASP.NET Website to a Web Application and we're shocked by the sudden leap in difficulty when deploying it. Considering how common a task this must be, I was wondering what plug-ins/software people use to deploy a rapidly…
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Appengine stuck on "Updating service [default]..."

I am using nodejs on appengine. We had a perfectly stable app scaffold on tuesday, and by friday it was completely broken after attempting to deploy. We made some minor changes to frontend code, but nothing that I think would prevent the instance…
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Tomcat Parallel Deployment, automatically undeploy old applications

I've been using Tomcat 8's Parallel Deployment as part of a zero-downtime continuous deployment setup for a while now. When the test gauntlet has been run, the CI server automatically renames the .war file to application##{version-number}.war and…
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Execute copy and set only if something changed

For Ansible, I have a role that sets the time zone and populates the setting the (Ubuntu) base system, - name: set timezone copy: content='Europe/Berlin' dest=/etc/timezone owner=root group=root mode=0644 …
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Automatically update Docker containers using webhooks

I have created a Github repo and a Docker repo. Both work together very well: when I push a new version of Dockerfile to Github, a new image is automatically built inside the Docker repo. Now, I'd like to have my running containers automatically…
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Tomcat7 hangs on deploying apps

I'm having some very strange behavior in Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 14.04. I created a new VPS, installed default-jdk and other simple stuff. Downloaded and unpacked Tomcat 7. Checked that it runs on [myIP]:8080, and saw Tomcat's index page. Once I…
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