I am just about to dive into Switchtower, but had a thought (go
figure?).
Could Switchtower use be inverted?
Could user, clients, or customers install switchtower and “pull”
applications?
Just a thought.
On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Lon B. wrote:
I am just about to dive into Switchtower, but had a thought (go
figure?).Could Switchtower use be inverted?
Could user, clients, or customers install switchtower and “pull”
applications?Just a thought.
Not with the current implementation, but it wouldn’t be hard to fix
the transfer.rb module so that SFTP can be used both ways. Still, I
think something like subversion is better suited for this, and
optimized for this situation, too.
- Jamis
Jamis B. wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Lon B. wrote:
Not with the current implementation, but it wouldn’t be hard to fix
the transfer.rb module so that SFTP can be used both ways. Still, I
think something like subversion is better suited for this, and
optimized for this situation, too.
- Jamis
I was thinking of using Switchtower as a distribution mechanism for a
couple for a few reasons.
If the clients machine has Ruby and Rubygem, we can walk them through
the setting everything up.
A lot of clients have no clue about how to pull using subversion, and
then update a running Rails application.
I am just diving into Switchtower this week, and will see if my
assumptions are wrong. But I think it could be a pretty interesting tool
to use for distribution of rapidly evolving applications.
Thanks for the great tool!
Sanford SV wrote:
I think Lon is onto something with the ‘pull-deploy’ idea. Most corp
environments are pull-only. Having a clever way to get switchtower to
have a polling schedule to check for outstanding deployments sounds
pretty useful…
Exactly. I have spent that few weeks logging into clients servers,
helping them install updates, migrate configuration information, etc.
If there was a tool to handle this process from the customers end,
elegantly and efficiently, it could really be an benefit to deploy
Rails/Switchtower.
I think Lon is onto something with the ‘pull-deploy’ idea. Most corp
environments are pull-only. Having a clever way to get switchtower to
have a polling schedule to check for outstanding deployments sounds
pretty useful…