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Makes sense, I am still yet to look into Chef or Puppet for server
Thanks for replying,
On Jul 2, 1:45 pm, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Others use software like Deprec, Chap, Puppet or Sprinkle to do something
> That's my take on it, and there's a post on the capistrano-dev list that
> 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
> > Any views on this?
> > Will
provisioning but it maybe a task for the future and Capistrano may
have a role to play there.
Will
> 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.
> similar, using the pre-existing lists of servers, and their roles via
> Capistrano to manage configurations.
> 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..
> > 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.