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With apt-get and yum you're installing pre-built binaries. This works well if that's all you need to do and are okay with the versions that are installed (typic
by lnguyen 14y ago
With apt-get and yum you're installing pre-built binaries. This works well if that's all you need to do and are okay with the versions that are installed (typically not the latest unless it's a new distribution).
Once you start having to download and build source for apps/libraries that aren't pre-packaged you can run into issues about version compatibilities, where files are located, do you need to download additional packages (*-dev), etc. Having a service that takes care of this for you solves a lot of headaches (part of why rayburst got built in the first place).
- sweetass 14y agoThen it sounds like gentoo emerge for other distro. It is useful for setup the software stack base, but I still have to log into the server to configure the software and deploy my code. In my opinion, you either use PaaS or use chef/puppet, depending on your case.
- lnguyen 14y agoThe issue is that unless you have standards such as directory locations and structure, users and permissions, there isn't a way to automate the process of code deployment even with chef/puppet. PaaS works because the provider has a standard and forces you to follow them. I don't mean that in any negative sense. I was in SCM for a number of years and know that kind of enforcement is necessary if you want to have any kind of repeatable, automatable and supportable deployments.