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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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From vSphere 5.5 - Deploying Centos 7 from template ignores customizations

I've been having troubles when deploying CentOS7 from template in that the customizations do not take effect. For the VM OS setting - I have selected RHEL7 as the OS rather than CentOS (previously having learned that lesson with Oracle Linux 6.5 at…
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What happens if you don't sysprep an image?

I've been researching WDS and other imaging tools, and the best practice seems to be to sysprep the master machine before imaging. However, where I've been working they simply build a machine then use Ghost to create an image. I asked them about…
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Changing physical path on IIS through appcmd isn't activated

We have come across an issue on IIS 7.5 where we have a simple deploy system which consists of the following: Create a zip-file of new webroot, consisting of three folders: Api Site Manager This is unzipped into a new folder (let's say we call it…
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How to mark every deploy in munin?

Anyone knows if it's possible to mark every deploy with a red vertical line in munin graphs? It will be great to debug possible performance holes in the code. Thanks in advance!
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Hardware independent computer imaging

Where I work we deploy a lot of computers to staff and we try to keep them all roughly the same. Presently we take each new machine type we get, configure it the way we want, and then take an image of it using Norton Ghost. We then deploy this to…
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Application deployment with Puppet

I'm new to Puppet and while I've been using *nix systems for many years, I've never worked as a sysadmin or in ops. I'm currently writing Puppet manifests for hosting a set of (PHP/MySQL/MongoDB, code in git) web applications. Clearly Puppet needs…
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open source implementations of the blue/green deployment pattern

Martin Fowler defines blue-green deployment here: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html The general idea is that website deployment is done by creating an independent instance of the site, and only redirecting customer traffic to…
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Unable to use "Web deploy" on Windows Server 2012 HTTP ERROR 404.7

I am using Windows server 2012 and Web Deploy 3.5. When I try to publish from Visual Studio I get 404 and suggests to follow the following link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE Both wmsrv and remote agent…
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Excluding a folder from deployment and stopping additional file removal

Using Web Deploy on a Windows 2012 Server, if a deployment has a folder full of user generated content I exclude it from publishing in the .pubxml file with: somefoldername If you use the…
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What are the popular (free?) options for application deployment?

I manage a small school network with about 150 machines. I am looking for an easy way to deploy software to all the machines without having to visit each one. I've used Symantec Ghost to get the machines all set up identically, but for one…
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How to avoid Remove-Item PowerShell errors "process cannot access the file"?

We are using TfsDeployer and PowerShell script to remove the folders using Remove-Item before deployment of a new version. Sometimes the PS script fails with the error: Remove-Item : Cannot remove item Services\bin: The process cannot access the…
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What's the best practice of mass Linux system deployment?

If you are trying to install 500 Linux system through network installation at the same time, the bottleneck would be the NFS/HTTP/FTP or whatever server holds files you need for installation. IMO, this can only be solved by adding more installation…
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How is software deployed via Active Directory?

What are the steps required for deploying a software package via Active Directory / GPO?
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automated installs vs. drive imaging

What are the pros and cons of deploying via automated installs vs. drive imaging? For Windows I know there are issues around SID generation when cloning drives. Are there any similar issues for deploying Linux via an image?
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What's the difference between installing RDS the 'normal' way and the special RDS deployment option?

When deploying RDS on Server 2012, there are two options: either installing it the 'normal' way by using the option 'Role-based or feature-based installation' or the 'special' way by using 'Remote Desktop Services installation'? When testing, I…
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