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While I understand where you're coming from, I expect that if you've had to manage application deployment and configuration in a large-scale environment you wou
by aisofteng 10y ago
While I understand where you're coming from, I expect that if you've had to manage application deployment and configuration in a large-scale environment you would be quite aware of how much work it is to develop even a one-off robust solution that is fully tested for edge cases, let alone reusable.
- Annatar 10y agoI currently run close to 72,000 servers doing automated deployment and configuration management with nothing but OS packaging and shell code inside of those packages. Does that qualify as large enough?
- pawadu 10y agoThank you! I had always assumed these tools felt over-engineered to me because I don't work with very large deployments. Now I am certain they ARE over-engineered...
- lisivka 10y agoI doing same: shell scripts (or Perl/Python/C) and RPM packages. Works well for more than decade. But I use my own library of modules for bash (bash-modules project on GitHub).