On Jul 24, 2012, at 5:22 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> This is something I'm thinking about for months, and since I see a lot of 
> people having issues with deployment, I have a couple of ideas to improve it.
> 
> 1) To have REST actions inside wotaskd. By having that, we won't ever need 
> JavaMonitor to manage wotaskd. You could use curl or any HTTP tools, and you 
> could rewrite Monitor in JavaScript or whatever. 
> 

This first suggestion is an amazingly good idea. I especially like the fact 
that it would be fairly easy to do. Adding hooks for REST in wotaskd should not 
break the rest of the application.

> 2) Upload support into wotaskd so that you can ship the app to it and wotaskd 
> will take care of putting it at the correct location.
> 

I agree with this one also. I am trying to set up some installation tools and I 
keep wondering why the heck I am fighting these f-ing scripts. Because we could 
have tools that manage deployments… O wait. We do. Sort of.

> 3) Deployment support in WOLips. Choose WOLips Tools -> "Deploy" and 
> build/deploy your app directly from WOLips.

This one I am not so excited about. Maybe somebody else thinks that deploying 
this way would be a good idea. I am not sure who that would be, though.

> 
> 4) Deployment plugin in Jenkins that would connect to the REST actions of 
> wotaskd.

Others have pointed out that you do not want to go from Jenkins to 
auto-deployment. But what I _really_ want to do is have a Jenkins build install 
the app, install it with a different name and run the tests I have included in 
my application, and then report the results to me. If I am running a suite of 
MyApp.woa instances, Jenkins could auto-deploy a MyAppNext.woa and then run the 
tests on it for me. You would want the change of MyAppNext.woa to MyApp.woa to 
be something that Monitor could do as a separate step, like bouncing apps, and 
it should not be too difficult.

> 5) RPM and .deb packages of wotaskd and mod_webobjects, with a Yum/apt-get 
> repositories to install/update the deployment tools on Linux.
> 

One could even have a Wonder install in port. I mean, hey, why not?

> Opinions? 

Got lots. Why do you ask? Do you want some of my extras?

cheers - ray



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