Frank Carver's Punch Barrel » automation http://blog.punchbarrel.com Frank Carver's musings about software and life Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:58:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Frank Carver's Punch Barrel 2010 frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver's Punch Barrel) frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver's Punch Barrel) 1440 http://punchbarrel.com/images/punchbarrel-144.jpg Frank Carver's Punch Barrel http://blog.punchbarrel.com 144 144 Frank Carver's musings about software and life Frank Carver's Punch Barrel Frank Carver's Punch Barrel frank.carver@googlemail.com no no Chef – scriptable multi-machine deployment http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2009/01/26/chef-scriptable-multi-machine-deployment/ http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2009/01/26/chef-scriptable-multi-machine-deployment/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:05:53 +0000 Frank http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=1079 I’m a strong believer that manual steps should be automated wherever possible. One of the areas of our current product which seems to require an inordinate amount of manual “faffing” is provisioning and deployment.

Chef, a ruby system for distributing and automating just these kinds of tasks seems an interesting solution.

Home – Chef – Opscode Open Source Wiki.

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ThoughtWorkers on Open Source: Announcing ChromeWatir release 1.0.0

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Deployment Pipelines: Revolutionizing Release Management

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