Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.
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Unable to deploy Cloud Service with Class 1 certificate
I have a brand new Cloud Service on which I want to deploy a .NET application (WebRole). The only means of access is HTTPS, so I generated a certificate (http://www.startssl.com/) and uploaded it to ...
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Deploying Django site on cPanel [closed]
I've a domain. I wanted to host a Django website in it. I've learned Django and it works perfectly well on localhost. I just want to upload it on in my domain. But I don't how to upload and run it on ...
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Difference between a VMWare vSwitch and a Cisco Nexus 1000 switch
I keep hearing colleagues talking about how VMWare's vSwitch and Cisco Nexus 1k switches are analogous. Can someone tell me how they are similar? And which is better among the two for a data center ...
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OS deployment: WIM image vs Windows Backup and Restore
As someone not very experienced with Windows imaging and with a looming task of deploying OS to at least 2 batches of laptops/PCs, I wonder if an experienced system admin can advise me on which one is ...
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“Lite Touch” Switch Network Deployment Options [closed]
While this is question is not for a typical corporate IT setting, I believe it can be inspired by IT best practices.
OVERVIEW
I am working on a product where every unit we deliver does integrate a ...
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Run/Execute permissions of script in Tomcat WAR file
I have a script inside the WEB-INF folder that the Java runs. When I deploy the WAR, there are no execute permissions (644 instead of 755).
How do I set the permissions of files inside the WAR?
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Retrieving Files Deleted by Web Deploy
I just deployed an ASP.NET MVC application to IIS 7 running on Win 7 Professional. I wanted to make sure some old files got deleted with the update, so I unchecked "Leave extra files on destination ...
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Typo3 Development-System, Deployment and Live-System
I have a Ubuntu webserver (root access) with TYPO3 6.0.4. In the future, this server is used as public available live server. So far, so the development was on the live system no big problem. But the ...
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One WDS server, multiple subnets
Goal: Be able to deploy Windows through WDS to different subnets (in different geographic locations) using only one WDS server located within the 'main' subnet (where I am).
Info: Each subnet is a ...
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Hudson kills the process at end of the shell script
Im configuring Hudson to automate deployment process. In shell script I start the server using different user and Im able to see the logs which says server is successfully started and able to access ...
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Starting a forever process in a Jenkins build step?
I'm running a shell command at the end of a Jenkins deployment to restart a forever script:
npm install && forever stop app.js && forever start -a -l /var/log/forever.log app.js
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Can't push to Git remote on my CentOS server: /usr/bin/git-receive-pack: No such file or directory
I'm trying to set up Git deployment to my CentOS 6.4 server on DigitalOcean. Here's my git config on my dev machine:
[remote "live"]
url = [my url]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/live/*
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Using Puppet to manage shell commands
For example lets attempt to let Puppet install the opengeo-suite.
To do something like
wget -qO- http://apt.opengeo.org/gpg.key | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://apt.opengeo.org/suite/v3/ubuntu lucid ...
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Azure Static Site with ServiceDefinition.csdef
I have a static website that I'm hosting on an azure web site. I have the need to run an elevated startup task and I believe the way to do this is via a ServiceDefinition.csdef file.
The problem is, ...
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How do I restart a process someone else is using
I'm pretty new to ops so please don't mind if use the incorrect terms.
I have a program that runs on another box. I need to restart the program after I deploy code to it, via capistrano. I tried ...
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What is the most automated way to deploy a new server being managed by Chef?
We use knife-vsphere to deploy and configure new chef-managed servers in our virtual environments, but don't have any one-step solution for physical servers. Currently the process involves imaging a ...
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Installing software as an Update
My company uses SCCM 2007 and Windows 7. I have a rather complicated application deployment that I need to do. To make a long story short, I have to automatically install this while no users are ...
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Rails: Multiple application deployment strategy
At my company, we currently have one main project which is a big monolithic Rails app. Deployment is easy, we have a couple of frontend servers (setup with Puppet) which Capistrano deploys into ...
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Deploying c# application
I have a c# winform application that may well be deployed too 2.5k machines. What is the best way to deploy such an application (avoiding installing by hand on each machine)
Thanks,
ayd
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Sysprep and unattend.xml: remove local user account on windows 7
We are deploying Windows 7 using WDS. We want to remove the local user account which was created during setup. We don't need this account since the machines join a domain and a domain user account is ...
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How can we restart a Tomcat 7 instance without redeploying war files?
Scenario: Bad logging configuration internal to war file. No Manager app in the instance.
Is there a JVM property or something we can set that will cause Tomcat to NOT redeploy on restart? That way ...
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Connecting to Microsoft VPN during MDT deployment
So I've finally got the deployment almost perfect. I just can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to connect automatically to a VPN using Microsofts Connections. I tried just adding a custom ...
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Set MAK and activate Office 2010 when deploying a syspreped image
I am deploying Windows 7 using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) on Server 2008 R2. On the image I have Office 2010 already installed. I don't use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) but Windows ...
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How to mark every deploy in munin?
Anyone knows if it's possible to mark every deploy with a red vertical line in munin graphs? It will be great to debug possible performance holes in the code.
Thanks in advance!
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Deploying files to a remote server: what's like rsync with extra options? [closed]
Devops question from a web developer alert :) I want to copy all locally modified files over to a remote server. Now I know I can use rsync, something like:
rsync -cavzu / ...
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How to setup NT Challenge on Windows 2008 R2
I want to setup NT Challenge for a web application. I have read a lot of articles but still not clear how can I setup it on windows server R2. Could anyone please point me settings/Configurations to ...
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WDS prompt for password
Issue: I setup a new WDS server. Earlier with my old server, whenever a client pressed F12 to connect to the WDS, it would prompt them to select 'Windows Deployment Server' or 'Hard disk drive' and ...
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Should I use system user account as opposed to normal user account for deploying the code in App server?
I have a Tornado app-server running behind an Nginx web-server. The app server contains python scripts for tasks like processing client requests, database call, running business logic, etc.
Of ...
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Are there already any examples on network/system administration from a settlement focused approach? [closed]
If you are a network or system administrator who is also aware and involved in transition town initiatives or similar, are there already any examples, best practices or practitioner groups on how to ...
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how can I create a server template to spawn new servers?
I have a couple of LAMP servers (on a VMware ESXi host) for projects built on top of the CodeIgniter PHP framework. To mimic the original dev server installation I set up those 2nd and 3rd servers by ...
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Sometimes Tomcat doesn't re-deploy on startup
The infamous rm -rf command is something we would rather avoid in Production, even if it's scripted. So if you have a war file named mywebapp.war and a directory its deployed to under webapps/ that is ...
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JAVA/Web application deployment smoke test playback [closed]
I'm wondering how best I can implement a series of tests after deploying a webapp, the main focus is deployments to Tomcat.
The goal would be, once a deployment script is completed, and Tomcat has ...
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Deploying node.js on Appfog?
I am developing an online chat application in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I am using node.js and socket.io to make it work.
I recently realized that I need to host my app on a server. Fortunately I ...
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How can I replicate performance counter setups in an Azure WorkerRole?
I am trying to collect performance statistics on our Azure application. Up till now, our process has been to set up the roles with RDP enabled, connect, manually set up the performance counters, log ...
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Two application pools or root virtual directories under one site
This might sound like a very dumb question, so let me first say what I want to achieve and then proceed to my question on how I'd envision something like this working.
I am trying to achieve ...
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Working Between Local, Dev and Production Machines / Servers [closed]
How do you as a Web Developer cope with working between Dev and Production servers and interms of config files etc?
What do you use etc
I am use to changing files manually etc
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What is a good way of securing credentials when deploying software to a remote server?
If I want to deploy some software to a remote server (e.g. Heroku or my own VM with SSH access) via a CI server like Jenkins Atlassian Bamboo, what's an effective way of keeping things like MySQL ...
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Idea for taking down half of the servers vs rolling restart?
We're setting up HAProxy to balance our application (ASP.NET MVC 3 running on IIS). We want our process to be without scheduled maintenance for deployment. I'm trying to figure out the correct way to ...
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'Re-link' a Win 7 User folder to an account?
I have a windows 7 SOE for my school which involves two partitions - C: for system (windows) and programs, and D: for Data. The "Users" folder is kept on D:. All users are in Active Directory.
I ...
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Abort MDT 2012 task sequence and deployment if pre-requisites are not met
For an automated deployment of Windows 7 created using MDT 2012, we would like the installation to abort if certain required pre-requisite conditions are not met.
For example, the computer receiving ...
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Why does chef have a two-pass execution flow? [closed]
Chef executes recipes with a two pass model: First it compiles each resource/provider by walking through the run list. Then it converges each of the compiled resource/providers to perform work.
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Deploy a Python project on a server with no compiler and no internet connection [closed]
There's a Python project I want to deploy on a production server which has no internet connection and no compiler. The project is using SQLAlchemy and pip install sqlalchemy requires a compiler to ...
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IIS 7 deploy rewrite rules on a website
I have to apply some redirect rules on IIS7/VS2008 and have question on how to deploy it. We have a website and not web application and hence most of other SO questions were not useful to me.
in ...
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Calling a script with nested drive reference
i am doing a simple command script that is using pushd to access a script on another server. The script on the remote server has a drive reference in it for a program call and i can't get the script ...
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Windows 2008 R2 server migration/copy
I have following setup of 2 Windows 2008 R2 Servers on x64, controlled via RDP.
Server 1: Development enviroment
Using IIS (7.5)
A asp.NET based CMS website running on the IIS.
SQL Server (express)
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How to cause workstations on network to install msi package?
I have remote access to a Windows Small Business Server 2008 machine. There are about 5 workstations connected to this network.
How can I make every workstation install an .msi package without ...
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Multi-server Deployment strategies - Git on production servers?
Main question: Is deployment using Git on production servers a good strategy?
Many, many deployment strategies I see revolve around having Git on your servers (dev, staging and production).
The ...
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Recurrence of an MSIEXEC package deployment through GPO
We want to use this simple command in a batch file:
msiexec /package "\path\package.msi" /quiet /norestart
We want to deploy it to all users and their machines.
We want it to be installed only once, ...
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Media deployment advice
We have applications that have a lot of static content (>60gb) which is updated frequently. It used to be we would manually rsync from vendors and between environments, and our code would rely on ...
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Chef: how to run actions if git deploy has pulled new code?
Most of the time there's nothing new in the git repo that is deployed to a local directory, but if there are any changes, the node.js application should be restarted to start working with the latest ...
