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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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Supervisor not loading new configuration files

I have a problem deploying Django app using Gunicorn and Supervisor. While I can make Gunicorn serving my app (by setting proper PYTHONPATH and running apropriate command, the one from supervisord config) I can't make supervisor to run it. It just…
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The corporate benefits of using MSI files

What are the advantages of using .msi files over regular setup.exe files? I have the impression that deployment is easier on machines where users have few permissions, but not sure about the details. What features does msiexec.exe have that makes…
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Automatically Configure New Computers

My company is in the process of upgrading all of our users from old Windows XP computers to newer quad-core Win7 computers. This is a good thing - it's long overdue that we upgrade our workstations - but I now spend a ton of time configuring new…
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ansible print debug msg variable

I try to print the previously registered mosh_version variable using the ansible debug msg command like this: - name: Print mosh version debug: msg="Mosh Version: {{ mosh_version.stdout }}" It doesn't work and prints the following error: Note:…
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Automating server deployment

I find i am constantly settings up pretty much nearly identical servers and VPSs for a number of my clients and it can be very time consuming. Often the only thing that changes between each deployment is the different website that is to be served.…
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Blue/Green deployments with CloudFront

I'm looking for a way to do Blue/Green deployments with CloudFront. Does anyone have a good solution for moving from one CloudFront distribution to another or does everyone really just create their distribution and then never ever touch it again?…
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What dir should I deploy Rails apps into?

What would be a reasonable and logical directory into which to deploy my production Rails apps on a Linux system? Some candidates... /var/rails <= There's a /var/www so this would be consistent with that pattern. But I.T. guys have…
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Is there a way to speed up AWS CodeDeploy

I'm using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy my sites, and I noticed it's not very consistent in speed; sometimes it's pretty fast, but other times each step of a deployment can take minutes. This is pretty annoying when a deployment should be performed fast,…
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What is the difference, if any, between Web Deployment Tool 2.1 and Web Deployment Tool 2.1 for Hosting Servers?

Microsoft's Web Platform Installer lists "Web Deployment Tool 2.1" with a release date of 4/11/2011, and "Web Deployment Tool 2.1 for Hosting Servers" with a release date of 4/8/2011. As far as I can see (by clicking Add, then Install), the contents…
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Why don't I have Deploy actions available in IIS 7 Manager?

I'm currently investigating options to script automated deployment of an ASP.NET web app. Using MSBuild I can create a package and import it manually or by script into a server running IIS 7. However, after reading instructions, such as Vishal…
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Starting a forever process in a Jenkins build step?

I'm running a shell command at the end of a Jenkins deployment to restart a forever script: npm install && forever stop app.js && forever start -a -l /var/log/forever.log app.js When I run that as a user jenkins everything works fine and the…
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What is the point of staging?

I thought I'd worked this out, but after reading Continuous Delivery (excellent book) I'm a little confused. They talk about having servers for: development various forms of automated tests user acceptance testing (UAT) - ie sitting down with the…
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Could not connect to remote computer web deploy ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE

I am trying to configure Web Deploy 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1 installed on it. When I try to validate connection using Visual Studio 2013 to publish a website it throws the following error. Could not connect to remote computer…
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Uninstall legacy versions of Office when deploying Office 365 Pro Plus

In volume licensed editions of Office (ones with an MSI deployment), you can use OCT to create a package that will remove previous versions of Office when the new version is deployed. Office 365 Pro Plus is Click-to-Run only, which means that OCT…
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Get list of transferred files from rsync?

I'm currently using rsync on a script that deploys a PHP application from a staging to a production server. Here is how: rsync -rzai --progress --stats --ignore-times --checksum /tmp/app_export/ root@app.com:/var/www/html/app/ This is currently…
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