Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [deployment]

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.

1293 questions
5
votes
2 answers

Group Policy installation failed error %%1274

OK, I have a really tough one I've already spent all morning on. PC is a Win7 64 with SP1 and all MS Patches Usual error everyone is familiar with: The assignment of application Adobe Reader X MUI from policy Software Install failed. The error was…
Dom
  • 741
  • 1
  • 8
  • 19
5
votes
2 answers

Linux system configuration management: versioning and deployment

I'm looking for the best way (for my purposes and situation) to version system configuration files and manage deployment (ownership and mode) between just two machines (live and backup, both should be regarded as 'production'). I would like to be…
strix
  • 109
  • 5
5
votes
1 answer

Should I keep my deployment settings in a separate repository?

I'm learning Salt Stack to deploy my Python application to various stages of production on AWS. Right now I have all my source code and salt states in one big repository. Are there any practical or security considerations in keeping minion state…
Petrus Theron
  • 1,601
  • 5
  • 17
  • 24
5
votes
3 answers

Is there any strong, well tested and general purpose puppet recipes-base to be used as starting point for customization?

I have configured a working cobbler system that successfully handles my bare metal server deployment and I'm going to start the configuration management issues using puppet (integrating it as much as possible with cobbler of course). As it seems…
drAlberT
  • 10,949
  • 7
  • 39
  • 52
5
votes
3 answers

Repeatable, reliable SQL Server deployments

What is the best way to set up a SQL Server deployment that can be easily repeated across multiple virtual servers? Does Microsoft provide something for this, or perhaps Powershell scripts?
Alex Angas
  • 2,017
  • 2
  • 26
  • 37
5
votes
1 answer

What is preferred approach to deploy Python app using RPM?

I am new to the dev-ops side of things, and I've been working to get a Python application packaged into an RPM (using python setup.py bdist_rpm) deployed onto a centos VM via Yum. Chef is used to manage the VM. The Python app will run within a…
woodbon
  • 53
  • 3
5
votes
2 answers

How to automate website deployments to production including minifying CSS/JS?

Currently I'm deploying my PHP website from staging to production using the following manual process: Minify CSS and JavaScript files using online YUI compressor tool. Move the original CSS and JavaScript files into another directory (to back them…
zuallauz
  • 143
  • 1
  • 10
5
votes
1 answer

GPG verifying git tags in a deployment script

We would like our deployment process to pull directly from our git repository, but only activate new changes if they are signed (via git tag -s) with a GPG signature. I've found very few examples out there of workflows that use GPG verification of…
larsks
  • 43,623
  • 14
  • 121
  • 180
5
votes
5 answers

How to deploy 10 new iMac and configure it programatically

What is the best and quicker way to deploy and customize a number of newly arrived iMacs (say 10 or more) using an already configured iMac, a DHCP/DNS server, a LAN and Remote Desktop installed on the configured machine ? The main tasks to be…
drAlberT
  • 10,949
  • 7
  • 39
  • 52
5
votes
1 answer

How do I deploy MS hotfix KB959628 exe/msp via a gpo easily?

I have been given a Microsoft hotfix that I need to deploy over the entire domain. I want to use GPO as the users do not have admin rights and Office was not deployed from an administrative point. It was deployed randomly on an individual basis. …
user129472
  • 53
  • 1
  • 4
5
votes
2 answers

Return from Chef recipe without rising an exception

Is there a way to return from Chef recipe without rising an exception? Say I have a long recipe. I want to add a ruby block to it's beginning which will check some condition (for example directory presence) and stop processing this recipe (but…
HUB
  • 6,630
  • 3
  • 23
  • 22
5
votes
1 answer

Capture Windows Updates in a .wim so that it can be redeployed

I am researching a new workstation deployment strategy for my company. As it stands right now we are building every workstation by hand and this takes massive amounts of time. The step that takes absolutely the longest is Windows Updates. I…
user89350
5
votes
3 answers

Unattended installations of Mac OS X

Is there a way to setup a networked automated OS deployment for Mac OS X? Admins wanting to deploy RedHat can deploy over the network using Kickstart (with the install media on a shared network resource). Perhaps something similar to Windows…
shadowaspect
5
votes
2 answers

Automatically deploying Windows Server 2003 and 2008 unattended

We are currently using PXE boots to automate the installations and reinstallations of our dedicated servers. This is working great for all Linux based systems like Debian, CentOS, VMware and Ubuntu in combination with kickstart/preseed. However, for…
Wouter van Eekelen
  • 198
  • 7
5
votes
1 answer

Deploying .msi application through GPO doesn't work

I've been trying to deploy the forticlient SSL VPN application (.msi format) into my domain machines, using a GPO. Even though I made a silent previous installation by issuing the command: msiexec /qb /i installer.msi and it worked, which is…
TechCP
  • 61
  • 1
  • 1
  • 6
1 2 3
…
86 87