Your interface to Heroku is essentially a Git branch. The Heroku gem does some work through their API, but within your Git repository, it’s just a new remote branch. heroku create yourapp # production git br -D heroku # delete the default branch heroku create staging-yourapp # staging git br -D heroku # delete the … Read more
I’d say export your server config in IIS manager: In IIS manager, click the Server node Go to Shared Configuration under “Management” Click “Export Configuration”. (You can use a password if you are sending them across the internet, if you are just gonna move them via a USB key then don’t sweat it.) Move these … Read more
Update 2019: These days, the question would be seen in a context using Git, and 10 years of using that distributed development workflow (collaborating mainly through GitHub) shows the general best practices: master is the branch ready to be deployed into production at any time: the next release, with a selected set of feature branches … Read more
I have written a detailed essay on this topic here: http://blog.itaysk.com/2017/11/20/deployment-strategies-defined In my opinion, the difference is whether or not the new ‘green’ version is exposed to real users. If it is, then I’d call it Canary. A common way to implement Canary is regular Blue/Green with the addition of smart routing of specific users … Read more
As a fellow Azure user, I share your pain – deploying isn’t “quick”https://stackoverflow.com/”painless” – and this hurts especially when you’re in a development cycle and want to test dev iterations on Azure. However, in general deployments should take much less than 60 minutes – and less than 20 minutes too. Steve Marx provided a brief … Read more
The following works without flattening the folder structure: gulp.src([‘input/folder/**/*’]).pipe(gulp.dest(‘output/folder’)); The ‘**/*’ is the important part. That expression is a glob which is a powerful file selection tool. For example, for copying only .js files use: ‘input/folder/**/*.js’
Running: npm install from inside your app directory (i.e. where package.json is located) will install the dependencies for your app, rather than install it as a module, as described here. These will be placed in ./node_modules relative to your package.json file (it’s actually slightly more complex than this, so check the npm docs here). You … Read more
Yes, you can run commands on the Ansible host. You can specify that all tasks in a play run on the Ansible host, or you can mark individual tasks to run on the Ansible host. If you want to run an entire play on the Ansible host, then specify hosts: 127.0.0.1 and connection:local in the … Read more