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Last time I used Fabric I switched to Capistrano, no need to use this Fabric since the language of your deployment scripts doesn't really matters. Lately I wan

by igorgue 16y ago

Last time I used Fabric I switched to Capistrano, no need to use this Fabric since the language of your deployment scripts doesn't really matters. Lately I want to experiment with Chef using blueprint [1]. What do you think? [1]: http://devstructure.com/ http://devstructure.com/

josegonzalez 16y ago
I've been using a simple Fabric script from http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/8/building-django-app-server-chef/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/8/building-django-app-... to automate Chef deploys. Blueprint tried to install a lot of nonsense on my box, and I decided that learning Chef proper would be a much better investment of my time.
- howradical 16y ago
  DevStructure co-founder here, sorry to hear about your experience. Not sure when you installed blueprint, but we've recently open-sourced it and it's been ported to python. Should require minimal "stuff" to use it. Let us know if you have any questions or problems and again my apologies. https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint
  - josegonzalez 16y ago
    It was not a reflection on your product. FWIW, I tried it out about 3 weeks ago, using the setup.sh script. I'm not even in a position to critique Blueprint, as I was only migrating one single Linode instance to another, and not even anything complex. Like you guys say, DevOps is hard.
    - howradical 16y ago
      Thanks for the clarification. We did open-source it last week (so you had an older version) and accounts are no longer required, you can download/build/run it. A lot easier to use should you choose to try again. If you need any help with the migration, we're always around the chatroom.
thibaut_barrere 16y ago
If you are interested to learn chef-solo/vagrant, please see http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2292140 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2292140 (which I just posted). I'm planning to write an e-book on the topic.
sophacles 16y ago
There are plenty of cases where deployment script language matters. Usually they revolve around having lots of tools/objects/etc already written in a language, and want to incorporate them into your automation system. This is how I found fabric to begin with.

by igorgue 16y ago

josegonzalez 16y ago

I've been using a simple Fabric script from http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/8/building-django-app-server-chef/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/8/building-django-app-... to automate Chef deploys. Blueprint tried to install a lot of nonsense on my box, and I decided that learning Chef proper would be a much better investment of my time.

howradical 16y ago
DevStructure co-founder here, sorry to hear about your experience. Not sure when you installed blueprint, but we've recently open-sourced it and it's been ported to python. Should require minimal "stuff" to use it. Let us know if you have any questions or problems and again my apologies. https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint
- josegonzalez 16y ago
  It was not a reflection on your product. FWIW, I tried it out about 3 weeks ago, using the setup.sh script. I'm not even in a position to critique Blueprint, as I was only migrating one single Linode instance to another, and not even anything complex. Like you guys say, DevOps is hard.
  - howradical 16y ago
    Thanks for the clarification. We did open-source it last week (so you had an older version) and accounts are no longer required, you can download/build/run it. A lot easier to use should you choose to try again. If you need any help with the migration, we're always around the chatroom.

thibaut_barrere 16y ago

If you are interested to learn chef-solo/vagrant, please see http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2292140 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2292140 (which I just posted). I'm planning to write an e-book on the topic.

sophacles 16y ago

There are plenty of cases where deployment script language matters. Usually they revolve around having lots of tools/objects/etc already written in a language, and want to incorporate them into your automation system. This is how I found fabric to begin with.