Deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. Questions relating to deploying software go under this tag.
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What is the difference, if any, between Model and QA environments?
I have worked for various organizations many of whom call their environment that comes after the test/developer environment and before the staging and/or production environment either model or QA.
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Forcing ExtJS application updates after deployment
I work on an ExtJS application with a Django backend, and we keep running into issues when we push new code. Our users seldom refresh their browsers, so after a code push we end up with users using ...
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Suggestions to improve small team workflow (CI / Deployment)
I'd like to improve my team's workflow and architecture.
Right now we have a LAMP dev server on which every member of the team has a subdirectory. We work directly in this directory via LAN. There is ...
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Best approach to including JBoss's standalone.xml in SVN structure?
Our application server is JBoss 7 as.
We use SVN as our code repository.
I need to ship our custom security domain in standalone.xml which is a jboss file (not packaged in my application's war file). ...
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Streamlining ASP.Net MVC deployment?
I own a VPS with Windows Server 2012 on it. I can install whatever I want on it.
In the past when deploying an ASP.Net MVC project, I would right click the project in the solution and Publish it.
I ...
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Script to check minimum requirements for an application [closed]
Is there a well-known, trusted open source script that we could use as a starting point to build a web-based analyser tool for our application that would be similar in functionality to the Firefox ...
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Application deployment with Puppet
I've been researching puppet lately, and I think it could be useful to integrate into my deployment pipeline.
Currently, I deploy my apps by manually adding users, creating vhosts, setting ...
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How can I build a C# project (installer) for multiple environments
I would like to propose a solution to our companies problem with building consistent installers for different environments. Our current process is to build an installer for test, perform testing, ...
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How to maintain lots of different variations for deployment, using Git for development
Although there are many similar questions here regarding using GIT for maintaining different versions, none seem to answer my specific case.
I'm OK with how to use GIT to do my development, using ...
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When do I need to use Session Replication?
I am working on a number of web projects for a firm. Most of the projects are about one or two pages of input and then doing a save to a MySQL database. My system administrators are pushing to try to ...
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How to deploy a single website to multiple physical servers ?
I want to deploy my website to multiple physical servers.
Is there possible methods to save files and setting (and also the user input), on all physical servers, so that servers do the following ...
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Is there a better approach in migrating SIT SVN to UAT SVN? [closed]
In web development, given a same piece of source code, and being deploy to SIT (system integration testing) SVN/WAS and UAT (user acceptance testing) SVN/WAS. Please take note that I am using Jenkins ...
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What guidelines are best suited for leveraging automatic deployments? [closed]
We are hoping to leverage a static code analysis tool (Sonar) as part of our continuous integration server, and are hoping to determine some useful guidelines to serve as a base for allowing the ...
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Automated deployment/installation of development tools [closed]
My team is looking to automate installation/deployment of all of our development tools.
The main driver for this is to ensure that everyone in the team has a consistent development environment setup ...
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How to handle this unfortunately non hypothetical situation with end-users?
I work in a medium sized company but with a very small IT force.
Last year (2011), I wrote an application that is very popular with a large group of end-users. We hit a deadline at the end of last ...
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Generating CMakeLists.txt [closed]
I got a bunch of C++ sources files and headers. They may use external libraries such as Boost e.g. I am interested in the process of building binaries for Windows and *nix.
Makefiles (*nix) and ...
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Deploying a very simple application
I have a very simple working console application written in C++ linked with a light static library. It is just for testing purposes. Now that the coding part is done, I would like to know the process ...
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Release Management versions control?
We recently experienced a deployment issue where it turned out that the version objects were not in sync in one of the environments.
We have a large database group and different teams have different ...
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TFS non-chronological deployment?
We have the following scenario:
Changeset #1 is some unfinished buildable checkin
Changeset #2 is a completed small task
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Changset #5 completes the work done at CS#1
They all affect the same ...
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Who should get a developer certificate from Apple if client want their company name to show up in App Store
I am about start my first project with client, However I will work as a consultant. So do I need to get developer certificate and post my client's app in app store? Or I should ask my client to get ...
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How do you deploy your ASP.Net MVC3 application to the production server?
I just want to find out the best practice to deploy your MVC3 application and what tool you use to get the job done.
I am using Visual Studio 2010. I publish my web site, then manually backup whats ...
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How do companies keep websites hidden when in development?
I am new to this and also a new 19 year old PHP developer that just got hired so I am unsure as to how this works. Many companies when developing their websites keep their sites hidden from being ...
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How to include database changes during application publish
I am maintaining a WinForms application, which talks to a SQL Server database. Sometimes I have to change database schema (for example to alter a sql procedure or add new one). For this purpose I have ...
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Good practices for packaging Python programs
I've been using Python for a while now, both in the context of personal and professional projects.
One thing that occured to me recently is that I had never thought about a good way to deploy Python ...
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What is Global Delivery Model?
Many software companies preach in their Website Banners: "Global Delivery Model". Has it anything to do with Deployment?
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What are the design decisions involved in choosing how to expose a Java web application?
There are many ways to expose a Java web application to the consumer: application container (JBoss etc), servlet container (Tomcat etc), OSGi (Knopflerfish etc), self-executable WAR (Winstone etc) and ...
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Web application deployment and Dependencies
I have a free software web application that using other free software scripts for appearance. I have trouble to decide whether should I copy source code of used scripts to my project main repository ...
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As a Europe-based company, is it possible to write a custom iPad application for a customer?
Our customer wants us to write a custom application for him that he can use on a handful of iPads in his company. This application is probably only useful for this one customer (maybe for two or three ...
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Do you have regularly schedule app updates? And if so how do you handle bugs that make it out?
We are trying to make our releases more frequent. As part of that we have blocked out a day of the week where we told users that we'll be doing updates. Similar how Microsoft has Patch Tuesday.
This ...
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Software bundle containing LGPL libraries as Java Fat-Jar Archive
At work, we're deploying a software bundle of a Java application (written by us) which has lots of external dependencies, most of them being LGPL and BSD-licensed third-party-libraries distributes as ...
