> making a trolling-but-no-really deployment framework called tarpipe... I ended up writing something _very_ like this at a previous job, where we were buildin

> making a trolling-but-no-really deployment framework called tarpipe... I ended up writing something _very_ like this at a previous job, where we were building out a lot of new systems but the existing Ops department were still living in the Solaris days and wouldn't let anything like Chef/Ansible into their world. It actually worked really well, you got simple one-command deploys, with rollback and so on, which (seemed to) always work without a hitch. The whole thing was maybe a few hundred lines of bash. That was a few years ago, and apparently that hacky little tool is still in use for all deployments.