I personally am familiar with 2 organisations with millions of dollars in annual revenue that deploy critical line of business applications like this in 2024
Ftp deployments are supported in azure web apps too, and widely used.
I just came by an org recently that serves intermediate ca certs that way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
With something like this, how do you handle the period of time while copying? I mean you can’t really leave it running as it wouldn’t be in a consistent state. A “under maintenance” page instead? Copy to a fresh folder and when done tell the webserver to serve the new location?
It depends. I’ve done it a few different ways:
- YOLO: especially with thugs like PHP you only affect one page at a time and with low traffic the odds of a problem is small
- Maintenance page: temporarily show a page. Some servers like IIS have this built in. Otherwise it’s a simple update to httpd conf
- In a cluster environment, just take the node you’re updating out of rotation, and only update one node at a time.
- Copy and switch like you suggested. Can be combined with any of the above and is a smart move if upload is slow or can be interrupted, or it’s cumbersome to restore the old files
Edit: spelling
What’s this fancy shit? I need to mstsc into the Windows desktop and ctrl+c & ctrl+v a zip for IIS web deploy
I use this to deploy stuff on my web server
Wait, 31 is an oldtimer ?!
The early twenties intermediate dev on my team was explaining the other week that if you remember a time before smartphones and broadband, you are old
SAP still seems to do it this way.
