Automated build and deployment.

techcode has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

While trying to bring my skills to the next level I found out about automated testing, using code repositories and other nice things. And there are bunch of sources of info about those.

But I wasn't able to find (any) info on automating the deployment of the applications.

Just before I started writing my own build/install script - I just wanted to if there are any hints/articles/cpan module that would help in the process.

I'm also not sure if I understood the whole thing right. Basicaly I was thinking to simply export project from the Subversion repository (by hand) copy it to the destination computer and have the script build/install required modules. Modules would be included in the distribution - and installed localy - just for that application ussage.

It's easiest that way since applications are web based, and most of people installing them would only have shared hosting.

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Re: Automated build and deployment. by sgifford (Prior) on Jun 07, 2006 at 21:20 UTC
ExtUtils::MakeMaker includes tools for making distributions which are easy to install. Unfortunately, there's no standard packaging format that works everywhere to install things on Web servers. That would be a very useful thing. -- sgifford's Web page	[reply]
Re: Automated build and deployment. by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 07, 2006 at 21:26 UTC
What you're describing is the way that the Krang CMS works. You're welcome to look at the code that handles builds and see if it might work for you.	[reply]
Re^2: Automated build and deployment. by techcode (Hermit) on Jun 07, 2006 at 23:54 UTC
Actualy I allready put Krang in the download list :D I heard they are shiping all required modules with it - so figured that it might be worth of checking out. Are there any other applications that follow the same/similar path? It's a bit limiting because you can only ship pure Perl modules that way - or hope that you have a nice server admin who is willing to do it for you. Have you tried freelancing? Check out Scriptlance - I work there. For more info about Scriptlance and freelancing in general check out my home node.	[reply]
Re^3: Automated build and deployment. by sgifford (Prior) on Jun 08, 2006 at 00:34 UTC
It's a bit limiting because you can only ship pure Perl modules that way - or hope that you have a nice server admin who is willing to do it for you. It's actually not that hard to install compiled modules with only Web access; have an installer script, run from a Web browser, that runs the compiler and installs the modules in the user's home directory. See Re: Re: Alternatives to User::Agent? for an example; obviously you'd have to adapt this for your purposes. I've found that this works for most Web hosting companies I've used, and I do it frequently. -- sgifford's Web page	[reply]
Re^4: Automated build and deployment. by tinita (Parson) on Jun 08, 2006 at 10:50 UTC
Re^5: Automated build and deployment. by sgifford (Prior) on Jun 08, 2006 at 15:27 UTC
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Re^3: Automated build and deployment. by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 08, 2006 at 04:05 UTC
Krang includes XS modules that need to be compiled. It does make certain assumptions about the target though, e.g. that it is a unixy system with a compiler available.	[reply]
Re^4: Automated build and deployment. by techcode (Hermit) on Jun 08, 2006 at 08:39 UTC
Re^5: Automated build and deployment. by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 08, 2006 at 14:52 UTC


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