Re: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
James Buckingham wrote: > > I thought I'd do a bit of asking around as I don't seem to be able to > find much about this online. I'm curious about how others manage > things like updates, testing and release management on a daily basis > across multiple instances of CF running on more than one server. We build EAR files in the build environment and move them from there to testing, QA and production. The configuration comes from properties files that are local to the server, instance or even application so typically we do not have to do any configuration on the server for an update (only when it is a feature release). We just shut the instance down, remove the old EAR file, drop the new one in and restart the instance with a batch file that in the process removes all the temp files of the previous EAR file. Typically takes 1 minute per instance, but in clusters we do the instances 5 minutes apart to allow the sessions to sync before we do the next instance. Someday I will automate this completely (the build environment is already automated), but for now we do the upgrades and checks manually. Jochem ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266597 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
On Monday 15 January 2007 12:27, Paul Vernon wrote: > via the update processes. +1 'svn switch' rocks ! -- Tom Chiverton Helping to adaptively initiate third-generation services This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266596 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
> I know you could probably write a couple of books on this > subject but I thought I'd just ask for people's experiences > and find out what they found to be the best way of managing > their code and servers. We install an SVN client (Tortoise) on the servers and all our sites are deployed to the servers using a checkout and subsequent updates are done via the update processes. Version control of over 70 sites is now a breeze. We never miss a file when uploading and we have the ability to roll back to previous versions if required. Having spent hours doing deployments to clusters in the past, performing an update via SVN is just a breeze. In essence, the deployment methodology works in the same manner for our local dev environments, test server and the production servers. It's quick, simple, cheap and effective. I can't say much more about it really. The only catch is you need to be running your own servers to do this. Paul ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266595 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
Morning everyone, I thought I'd do a bit of asking around as I don't seem to be able to find much about this online. I'm curious about how others manage things like updates, testing and release management on a daily basis across multiple instances of CF running on more than one server. We've just started a migration project to move all our applications up from version 5 to MX 7.0 and to load balance everything across 4 Win2003 servers (2 for testing purposes and 2 as our live servers). I've now been given the task of looking at new procedures on managing these servers and the way that our team should control these for the points above. I know you could probably write a couple of books on this subject but I thought I'd just ask for people's experiences and find out what they found to be the best way of managing their code and servers. Cheers, James ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266593 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
