Your collegues need to be confortable with your dev environment:
me@laptop$~: make
me@laptop$~: make install=> a Makefile to build PHP, Composer-based web apps
Your sysadmins will probably appreciate this:
me@server$~: make release=> a Makefile to deploy web apps on a released-based dirs structure
This 'Build & Deploy' Makefile-based initiative is 100% aimed at helping devOps habits grow.
- we need to keep the environment build/deployement simple & fast ;
- nobody want to learn a new [Composer/Grunt/Bower/Npm/Rake/Whatever] tool each time they (re-) build your project ;
- adding a new tool (Gulp?) is very OK, but we don't want to change the habits & feeling other people already know: build/deployement command doesn't change, it's just
make, as always.
- use good old
make, available on every *NIX platform: GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X. - it's readable, reliable & very hack-friendly ;
- add/remove/change your rulesets & tools hunder the hood, without binding others to learn how to use it ;
- While releasing a new version, rollbacking is as simple as deploying:
make rollback; - backup existing assets/data before any release shipping ;
- in case of doubt:
make help
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