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Lee Hambley  
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 More options 2 July, 13:45
From: Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:45:37 +0100
Local: Thurs 2 July 2009 13:45
Subject: Re: [capistrano] Capistrano for Systems administrators
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Will,
People say that largely because it's handy to be able to tell an existing
list of servers that you deploy to, to run a command - some people (like
myself) choose to ship a bash script with their app, to provision the
server.

Others use software like Deprec, Chap, Puppet or Sprinkle to do something
similar, using the pre-existing lists of servers, and their roles via
Capistrano to manage configurations.

That's my take on it, and there's a post on the capistrano-dev list that
says as much as "server provisioning isn't what we're good at" - so we won't
be getting anymore involved I don't think... mostly what people are saying
when they refer to provisioning with Capistrano is provisioning with
Net::SSH with a list of servers that happens to be in your deploy.rb..

Hope that clears up my take on this at least!

- Lee

2009/7/2 william pink <will.p...@gmail.com>

> Hi,

> Just a general question

> Many people have mentioned Capistrano as being a great tool for system
> administration but I am finding it hard to find any reasons on why it would
> be? Many of the tasks can be done with a much simpler Bash script but maybe
> I don't know of the fantastic features Capistrano is capable of because of
> the somewhat lacking documentation.

> Any views on this?

> Will


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