Disclaimer: Defining what build and deploy means is very subjective. I will start with deploy. Deploy should mean take all of my artifacts and either copy them to a server, or execute them on a server. It should truly be a simple process. Build means, process all of my code/artifacts and prepare them for deployment. … Read more
It’s been several months since I asked this question and not a lot of answer flow. Both Samyak Bhuta and nponeccop had good suggestions, but I wanted to discuss the answers I’ve found to my questions. Here is what I’ve settled on at this point for a production system, but further improvements are always being … Read more
A couple of quick hints, then some links: Don’t use lein uberjar during development; prefer lein jar. The difference is that lein uberjar puts all your dependencies in the generated jar (including Clojure itself), so that your single jar is an entirely self contained package with your app inside; lein jar only jars your own … Read more
In the case where you have both exe and the msi the exe is just a loader for the msi. If you have an installation supporting multiple languages then the exe applies a language transform (mst) on the msi before installing. You can consider the exe as a wrapper around the msi. The msi file … Read more
None of these answers are sufficient in my mind. This does seem to be a genuine bug. I will update this response if I ever find a non-hack solution, or Microsoft fixes the bug. Update: Doesn’t seem promising. https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/731303/publish-web-feature-not-including-all-dlls
Replica Set is the next generation of Replication Controller. Replication controller is kinda imperative, but replica sets try to be as declarative as possible. 1.The main difference between a Replica Set and a Replication Controller right now is the selector support. +————————————————–+—————————————————–+ | Replica Set | Replication Controller | +————————————————–+—————————————————–+ | Replica Set supports the … Read more
A couple of tips: Use source control, NOT FTP/etc., for the files. It doesn’t matter what you use; we tend to spin up an Unfuddle.com subversion account for each client so they have a place to log bugs as well, but the critical first step is getting the full source tree of your site into … Read more
I highly recommend using both Monit AND upstart. Upstart makes it easy to deamonize node.js and Monit comes packed with tons of useful app checks including memory usage, http requests, cpu usage, … This is an example of the most basic setup you can get. You could also easily add another monit config (with the … Read more
You can use rimraf: https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf. Note that if you are using globs containing the globstar (**), you must double-quote them. Unix systems don’t all support the globstar by default, but rimraf will expand them for you. Windows doesn’t support single-quotes, so those can’t be used. Remember that double-quotes must be escaped in JSON with a … Read more
I use a combination of the following to make this fairly painless: Cake (incl. the deploy command) A Cake template for webprojects developed by Lau Jensen. Vagrant (Ruby VM(Virtualbox) management tool, which relies on Chef or Puppet) VPS (from Slicehost) The key part is the webdev template that Lau made. The webdev folder should be … Read more