We have a number of Python & Java thrift services which we are manually deploying on a regular basis; usually early in the AM while it's "quiet" since deployment causes service interruption.
We'd like to move to continuous deployment, so that when our commits successfully pass all the tests on our Hudson/Jenkins CI server something (Hudson/Jenkins, Puppet, custom scripts) will deploy the services without human intervention. The problem is that, in this scenario, the services may be deployed multiple times a day. Since each deployment causes service interruption we've held back. So, my question is: how would one avoid service interruption during deployment? Is there a common tool/strategy for such tasks? -- Phillip B Oldham [email protected] +44 (0) 7525 01 09 01
