automated-deploy

MSBuild - Getting the target called from command line

Does anyone know how to get the name of the TARGET (/t) called from the MSBuild command line? There are a few types of targets that can be called and I want to use that property in a notification to users. Example: msbuild Project.proj /t:ApplicationDeployment /p:Environment=DEV I want access to the target words ApplicationDeployment ...

Automated MSI installation

What is the best way to automatically install an MSI file or installer .exe? We want to do some automated testing from our build system on the installed copy of the product. Our installer has the usual license acceptance screen, install location, etc. As FryHard pointed out there are two options in particular that seem handy: "/quie...

Automatic Deployment Resources

I know enough to know that we need to get our application to deploy with a single user action. However, I don't know: What are some good tools to use in a .NET shop? How do you manage config changes for each of your environments? Can someone point me to some good resources for continous integration. I'd like to see some theory as wel...

How can I centralize an entire website engine?

Prefer responses via php or ROR if possible! Example: The slide widget at www.slide.com can be deployed anywhere on the web. But the slide developers have centralized edit capabilities to these widgets. A change to the widget core, will update across all installed widgets. Can this be done with an entire website engin...

How do I copy built artifact to a directory on remote Windows server in maven deploy phase?

Hello, could someone provide working example (full maven plugin configuration) how to copy built jar file to a specific server(s) at the time of deploy phase? I have tried to look at wagon plugin, but it is hugely undocumented and I was not able to set it up. The build produces standard jar that is being deployed to Nexus, but I need t...

How to programatically change a project's product version?

Here is my problem: I have several deployment projects. In order to deploy an application, I need to do several tasks, one of them is to change each deployment project's product version and product code. I can't find a way to programatically change them. Can anyone help me ? Thanks in advance. UPDATE: Since it's a Deployment project...

deployment tools under .NET solutions

Hi guys, We all do code, small (like one .exe) or big applications (complete solutions) with web applications, windows applications, databases, help files, configuration files and registry values... my question is simple, in my opinion that is, now that I need to deploy a web application and a windows application in just one installati...

Tool (or combination of tools) for reproducible environments in Python

I used to be a java developer and we used tools like ant or maven to manage our development/testing/UAT environments in a standardized way. This allowed us to handle library dependencies, setting OS variables, compiling, deploying, running unit tests, and all the required tasks. Also, the scripts generated guaranteed that all the environ...

Can system Environment Variables be set via Windows Logon Scripts?

I have an MSI-packaged application that is being deployed via Group Policy Objects (GPO) from a Windows 2003 Domain Server to all the XP client machines in the network. This application reads two environment variables for its configuration (which server IPs to talk to) and it seems like we'd also want to push this configuration via a GP...

ASP.NET Automated deployment to remote ftp server

Does anyone know any good solutions for automated deployment to a remote server using SFTP? I am specifically trying to deploy an asp.net mvc website to mosso. I can do it manually every time using an SFTP client, but would much rather have an automated (and consistent) way to do this. ...

What are good code deployment strategies?

I am working on a Django project. And our team follows agile practices(TDD,very short launch times etc..) When it comes to deployment stage of a feature, we follow manual procedures to get the code deployed on to our production machine. Manual procedures in the sense, run the testcases(of the entire project) manually and run the syncdb...

Recommend a Phing tutorial?

I've seen a few tutorials about Phing out there, but does anyone have a really good recommendation for one. It definitely looks like a handy tool. ...

Upgrade an existing application to include ClickOnce

Is it possible to introduce ClickOnce functionality to an existing application? The scenario is: Version 1.0 is already installed on client premises. I would like to send them a new setup package which will upgrade to 1.1, which has ClickOnce functionality, thereby making future upgrades "effortless". Barring that, are there any other ...

Questions about default deploy Task in Capistrano for PHP project and config.php

Hello All, I'm having a full day understanding the use of Capistarno. Is really a nice tool that will save me lots of time. I'm actually wanting to use it to deploy one of my many php apps :) If I have a config.php with an $env="development" variable. Is there any way to make Capistrano change this variable for me to "production" inste...

Activate a virtualenv via fabric as deploy user

I want to run my fabric script locally, which will in turn, log into my server, switch user to deploy, activate the projects .virtualenv, which will change dir to the project and issue a git pull. def git_pull(): sudo('su deploy') # here i need to switch to the virtualenv run('git pull') I typically use the workon command ...

What tool should I use to automate my deployment of my ASP.NET MVC application?

I've written a site for my summer internship using ASP.NET MVC. The progress is going well but one thing I have found painful is deployments. Particularly, because we have frequent deployments and I've been doing them by hand. I'm looking for sort of the "standard" .NET deployment tool that can be utilized with an ASP.NET MVC project ...

Deploying a website to Production From Team Build Server

I have a team foundation server with build server, when I run a build it deploys to a website on that box. However I also want to do the same on Production which is a server on an external network and not part of the same domain. I thought about looking at TFS Deployer but that just seemed to work within a network, I'm going to test it ...

How to test JBoss deployment automatically?

I have jboss application. And want to test deployment automatically. And want to add this task as a project in Hudson My vision is based on the following stages: Put my application to JBoss(copy ears, configs, libs e.t.c) Run JBoss I have a Linux-machine and now our project is require JBoss 4.3.2. How can I run the JBoss and analyze...

Automatic Deployment to Multiple Production Environments

I want to update an ASP .NET web application (including web.config file changes and database scripts) to multiple production environments - ideally with the click of a button. I do not have direct network connectivity to any of them. I think this means the application servers will have to "pull" the information required for updating the ...

Is there a Perl or Lua alternative to Capistrano?

For a number of web-applications I need something like Capistrano to automate deployment. I know Capistrano can be used to deploy non-ruby applications but I'm not familiar with Ruby, so I expect writing deployment configurations can be a bit of a pain. So I was wondering, are there any alternatives to Capistrano written in either Perl ...