Configuration Management and Deployment

[admin]

Are there recommended best practices somewhere on how to manage various workflows using some sort of configuration management?  I am developing approximately a dozen workflows that will be combined in a package but this environment does not seem to fit with a typical software development configuration management model.  How have other people addressed this issue?

After getting the flows into some sort of CM environment what is a good means for distribution of packages?  Are they just made available to consumers through a portal or is there a better means to accomplish this?

[cdecanini_ · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can export a workflow or package to the filesystem every time you modifiy it and commit it to your conf management system.

It is not ideal but works out.

The other thing you can do is to use different vCO servers as package repositories and synchronize packages when appropriate. I wrote an article about it here.

[admin]

I have reviewed the paper you referenced.  I am wondering if there is a command line interface into VCO so I can script the exporting of the workflows and then check them into my source repository.

If there is not a command line interface is it possible to create a workflow to perform the exporting tasks?