We're basically following the HashiCorp way, where each binary is in a zipfile specifying its version, the binaries don't have version-numbers in them but all b

We're basically following the HashiCorp way, where each binary is in a zipfile specifying its version, the binaries don't have version-numbers in them but all binaries respond to a --version usage flag. [1] We then unzip the binaries into versioned folders so we can have multiple versions on the same box. This works pretty neatly with our Ansible playbooks too. [2] [1] http://www.consul.io/downloads.html http://www.consul.io/downloads.html [2] https://github.com/snowplow/ansible-playbooks https://github.com/snowplow/ansible-playbooks