I am just about to dive into Switchtower, but had a thought (go figure?). Could Switchtower use be inverted? Could user, clients, or customers install switchtower and "pull" applications? Just a thought. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Lon Baker wrote:> I am just about to dive into Switchtower, but had a thought (go > figure?). > > Could Switchtower use be inverted? > > Could user, clients, or customers install switchtower and "pull" > applications? > > Just a thought.Not with the current implementation, but it wouldn''t be hard to fix the transfer.rb module so that SFTP can be used both ways. Still, I think something like subversion is better suited for this, and optimized for this situation, too. - Jamis
Jamis Buck wrote:> On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Lon Baker wrote: > > Not with the current implementation, but it wouldn''t be hard to fix > the transfer.rb module so that SFTP can be used both ways. Still, I > think something like subversion is better suited for this, and > optimized for this situation, too. > > - JamisI was thinking of using Switchtower as a distribution mechanism for a couple for a few reasons. If the clients machine has Ruby and Rubygem, we can walk them through the setting everything up. A lot of clients have no clue about how to pull using subversion, and then update a running Rails application. I am just diving into Switchtower this week, and will see if my assumptions are wrong. But I think it could be a pretty interesting tool to use for distribution of rapidly evolving applications. Thanks for the great tool! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I think Lon is onto something with the ''pull-deploy'' idea. Most corp environments are pull-only. Having a clever way to get switchtower to have a polling schedule to check for outstanding deployments sounds pretty useful... Jamis Buck wrote:> On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Lon Baker wrote: > >> I am just about to dive into Switchtower, but had a thought (go >> figure?). >> >> Could Switchtower use be inverted? >> >> Could user, clients, or customers install switchtower and "pull" >> applications? >> >> Just a thought. > > > Not with the current implementation, but it wouldn''t be hard to fix the > transfer.rb module so that SFTP can be used both ways. Still, I think > something like subversion is better suited for this, and optimized for > this situation, too. > > - Jamis
Sanford SV wrote:> I think Lon is onto something with the ''pull-deploy'' idea. Most corp > environments are pull-only. Having a clever way to get switchtower to > have a polling schedule to check for outstanding deployments sounds > pretty useful...Exactly. I have spent that few weeks logging into clients servers, helping them install updates, migrate configuration information, etc. If there was a tool to handle this process from the customers end, elegantly and efficiently, it could really be an benefit to deploy Rails/Switchtower. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.