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Published inSep 2018
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Daniel Li
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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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Problems with manual deployment


Here are some of the weaknesses in our current approach:

  • Lack of consistency: Most enterprise-level applications are developed by a team. It is likely that each team member will use a different operating system, or otherwise configure their machine differently from others. This means that the environment of each team members’ local machine will be different from each other, and by extension, from the production servers'. Therefore, even if all our tests pass locally, it does not guarantee that it will pass on production.
  • Lack of independence: When a few services depend on a shared library, they must all use the same version of the library.
  • Time-consuming and error-prone: Every time we want a new environment (staging/production) or the same environment in multiple locations, we need to manually deploy a new VPS instance and repeat the same steps to configure users, firewalls, and install the necessary packages. This produces two problems:
    • Time-consuming: Manual...
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Published in: Sep 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788477321

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Daniel Li

Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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