Deploying code on a bunch of machines

Question

I have some binaries and code to be deployed to various environments. I currently use pexpect library in python to connect and rsync over sash to sync the code. Currently the method uses push mechanism to deploy. Is there a better way to do this? Is pull mechanism better. Any suggestions?

Could you add more details? What kind of environments? Heterogeneous or not? What code exactly? Mixed hardware architectures? Why sash? — maxschlepzig, Sep 01 '11 at 17:28

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 06 '12 at 02:03

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You may want to look at Fabric or Capistrano.

edited Feb 06 '12 at 02:03

Felix Yan

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answered Sep 01 '11 at 07:52

Brent

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '11 at 07:22

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You are probably looking for a distributed revision control system like Git, Mercurial etc.

answered Sep 01 '11 at 07:22

rozcietrzewiacz

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '11 at 08:26

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http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/murder-fast-datacenter-code-deploys.html

Here's some interesting implementation of Bittorrent protocol for distributed deploy by Twitter guys.

answered Sep 01 '11 at 08:26

Abhishek A

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Deploying code on a bunch of machines

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