[Deploy] Deploying application - New Best Practices?

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:47:42PM -0400, sergio ruiz wrote:
> I have a feeling things have progressed at this point. Can anyone point me in
> the right direction to learn current best practices?

Some things I'm now doing differently, based on reading up on current best
practices:

Initial deployment - creating uid/gid, creating directories, deploying VM,
copying image and various artefacts, templating daemontools run file, etc is
done using Ansible. Check out Ansible, Chef and Puppet.

For my blog, content management is under version control using Fossil and is
pushed from my workstation where I write/check the post to my blog server:

  http://www.samadhiweb.com/blog/2016.08.12.fossil.html

This approach also works for pushing application changes. I use Fossil, but for
Git you can find any number of tutorials on the web on how to push-hook and all
that. Better Git support built into Pharo should make this easier.

> In the past, I would have added some kind of remote desktop server into my
> image, and run it headless on the server. When I needed to update the source
> code with monticello, I would use a VNC client to log in, update my source
> code, save the image, etc

The latest thinking is to blow away whatever is currently running, deploy new
artefacts (image, etc) freshly built from CI, and restart the application.
Fashionable memes are "cattle, not pets" and "no snowflakes".

I still build my images with RFBServer running so that I can VNC into them.
Over time I do that less and less.

Pierce

> On 26 May 2017, at 21:47, sergio ruiz <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hey, all..
>
> I have a Pharo application that I ready to deploy to production. I haven’t done this in a lot of years, so I thought I might check around on what the current best practices are.
>
> The app is a Teapot(REST) based application that processes SMS and MMS messages, including saving files to the file system, etc..
>
> In the past, I would have added some kind of remote desktop server into my image, and run it headless on the server. When I needed to update the source code with monticello, I would use a VNC client to log in, update my source code, save the image, etc.

My current approach is more or less what you find here

  https://github.com/svenvc/pharo-server-tools

That include a REPL and Metrics server for operational purposes.

Where can i find a current RFBServer?

Right now, I don't want to blow away what's currently running as it is an image with data.. will figure out persistence later..

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:52:35PM -0700, sergio_101 wrote:
> Where can i find a current RFBServer?

  http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/RFB