I would like to begin to automate application rollouts/deployments to my UAT and Production servers.
I'm a senior PM in charge of the 'Solution Delivery' arm of our organisation. We have around 25-30 clients, each client using their own installation of a distributed web-based application - 2 app servers and a DB server.
My remit is to not only deliver my projects on time/budget, etc. but that ensure these applications are delivered successfully to our various environments.
Our source code will be in MS Team Foundation Server soon (it's in VSS now). We have automated builds of our product on a daily basis.
I would like to know if anyone has any experience in automating the rollout of applications - the rollout would consist of:
- Deploying and installing MS .Net applications and services
- Copying files
- Executing DB scripts
- Logging and auditing all the above changes
I'm looking for a tool (probably script-based) that will help me manage/deploy the above.
Does anyone else have experience of this problem/solved it before/provide some insight?
Many thanks
David