Build .debs either locally or (preferably) from CI, push them to an apt repository, apt-get install to production from puppet/ansible.
EDIT: I should explain how this actually helps solve the problem. If I'm building a package locally, I can take advantage of all sorts of cached files which I can't assume are present on the production server. I can also use tools I don't want installed in production to speed up the process. Building a local package from cached gems is pretty quick, and will get much quicker once I've got precompiled gems sorted out. I haven't got a particularly good answer to speeding up `rake assets:precompile`, but having it fail locally is better than having it fail in production.
to push changes to my repo service, ssh to production servers, pull down changes via git, and restart necessary services/run associated tasks like symlinking to new static content.
Aside from "deploy" I have tasks to update the virtualenv etc, this has worked well for me for a few years.
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Which approach do you prefer to solve this problem?
Build .debs either locally or (preferably) from CI, push them to an apt repository, apt-get install to production from puppet/ansible.
EDIT: I should explain how this actually helps solve the problem. If I'm building a package locally, I can take advantage of all sorts of cached files which I can't assume are present on the production server. I can also use tools I don't want installed in production to speed up the process. Building a local package from cached gems is pretty quick, and will get much quicker once I've got precompiled gems sorted out. I haven't got a particularly good answer to speeding up `rake assets:precompile`, but having it fail locally is better than having it fail in production.
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to push changes to my repo service, ssh to production servers, pull down changes via git, and restart necessary services/run associated tasks like symlinking to new static content.
Aside from "deploy" I have tasks to update the virtualenv etc, this has worked well for me for a few years.