Stuff about system configuration, deployment, and so on.
On application deployment, we often want associated services ready to go. After all, what good is a web application without a database? Ideally, when you first deployed your application, a database and role would automatically be created using the same settings that your application uses. In this post I’ll discuss two methods of sharing database ...
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To reduce the amount of setup required to start using Deb Constrictor for new projects, build configurations now allow for multiple parents (as of version 0.7). Now, when writing configurations, your build-config.json can inherit from a parent project config containing the project name, and a “base” config that defines the type of project ...
Last update on Feb. 26, 2019.
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Welcome to the thrilling conclusion of this three-part series on deploying this site with Deb Constrictor. This post will cover how to build and deploy DPKGs for configuration (including different configuration for different environments), and how v0.4 of Deb Constrictor adds the ability to mark files as configuration.
This post assumes you’ve read part ...
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Using Docker for a reproducible deployment environment! Now that I have your attention with some buzzwords, welcome to the second of three parts in my series on how I deploy this site using Deb Constrictor. The last post was about building and deploying the application code, this one is about building the Python virtual environment ...
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Deb Constrictor (my pure-Python DPKG building application) adds many features in version 0.3 to make building packages easier and to keep your configurations DRY. This is part one of three posts of how I use Deb Constrictor to build and release this web site (the one you’re reading right now).
The application is released ...
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I use DPKGs for all my deployments, and have tried a number of tools to build them. None have been perfect though, so what’s the best solution? Build my own, of course! TL;DR: I wrote a native Python (OS-independent) package to build Debian Packages: deb‑constrictor.
I’ve tried a few ways ...
Last update on Jan. 11, 2016.
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I don’t release stuff as often as I should. Because it’s a pain to configure new applications and get them installed where you want them. I want a tool that:
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Last update on Aug. 17, 2014.
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