Web Deployment OS or COTS (was RE: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git)

[Mike Ballon]

cPanel huh? Never really thought of that.

As of "now" they basically develop live on the dev host, commit the changes
to svn, and then someone from my team does a svn update from test and then
prod. It works for the most part, although frequency and major changes (file
permission loss is the main issue there) are the issue. They will change
things at least once a week and more often everyday and I can't keep up.
Least I forget to mention, there are frequent mistakes (for lack of a better
word) which sometimes require several pushed a day.

If I had a system that my team built where the dev team had the control and
access, it would make my life much easier. Of course we're still talking
about going through change management and all that fun stuff as we get
tripwire reports each day.

So to sum up; move file (changes only) from dev to test to prod with
versioning and rollback capabilities. I'm thinking it will be custom
scripts, although if I can save some time and use something already out
there, I'm all for it.

-Mike

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know Cpanel was designed to do some of this, bu8t not sure if its
> 100% what you need. maybe peek at usermin it might have the features
> you want.
>
> maybe a stack of rsync to a serve they have access to. once they get
> it the way it supposed to be fire off a script to merge it into
> production with backup for easy reversal?
>
> most of this is guesswork however what do they need and what is
> require for data to go live?
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Mike Ballon <mike.ballon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Greets,
> > I'm looking for either an opensource or commercial package for web
> > deployment. In the past I have used both Replweb and WebMethods in the
> > Windoz world, although now I'm looking at a LAMP environment.
> > The reason I'm looking is because our web team does constant updates and
> > deployments and I honestly can't keep up with everything else I have to
> do.
> > I could give them access to production like they use to have, of course I
> > really don't want that. I could also use svn/git with rsync (which we
> have
> > done in the past) or simply manual write custom scripts for everything,
> > although I really want a turnkey solution.
> > Ideally I'm looking for something that supports not only version control,
> > but the standard dev, test, prod method with rollback. I'd like to setup
> the
> > infrastructure and walk away, well for the most part anyway. Nice to have
> > would be a web UI, although it's not required. Right now all I've been
> able
> > to find is Rational Build Forge and I'm looking for opinions and
> experience
> > from the PLUG.
> > -Mike
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