Re:Automated, large-scale deployments with Ansible's pull-mode
by Ixiaus on Thursday July 04, 2013 @12:45PM
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Using the word "hate" was probably unfair; I can see it being okay for the small Heroku/WPEngine project deployment.
What I mean by that statement is that VCS was never designed to be a deployment solution. I won't argue with a seasoned programmer for using git to deploy their blog to WPEngine, it's one-dimensional and not mission critical (unless you make your living off of it).
Deployment is much more than just "getting your app on the server". Git happens to be in vogue (for deployment) because it is part of the developer's toolset and already handles transporting and merging diffs. This doesn't make it appropriate for deployment though, the argument is very long and I may just end up writing a blog post about it.
What I mean by that statement is that VCS was never designed to be a deployment solution. I won't argue with a seasoned programmer for using git to deploy their blog to WPEngine, it's one-dimensional and not mission critical (unless you make your living off of it).
Deployment is much more than just "getting your app on the server". Git happens to be in vogue (for deployment) because it is part of the developer's toolset and already handles transporting and merging diffs. This doesn't make it appropriate for deployment though, the argument is very long and I may just end up writing a blog post about it.