[web-devel] Deploying a yesod app to production, without compiling in production servers.

[Nubis]

Hi guys,
After lots of effort, the yesod app I'm working on is finally ready to be
deployed in a production environment, but I'm having a hard time deciding
what's the best strategy to do so.
I have proper development, staging and production environments. We'll be
doing our coding on development, then tag a revision and push it to staging,
and then if
everything works fine we'll push that same tag to production. We're going to
be using ubuntu 11.04 and all machines will be the same architecture too.
My main concern is that compiling in production may be inefficient and badly
stress the server, so these are my deployment options so far, I would like
to hear your opinions on them,
and maybe you can also answer some of the questions that arise from them:

* Compile and statically link the app, then push it to staging, and if it
works, to production:
    Would be great, but I'm getting some warnings relating glibc and errors
linking libgss which I could fix, but hint's that It's going to be painful
to keep a statically linked version and suggest it's going to be brittle.

* Compile and move the binary and all the libraries it uses to the server:
   In theory it should work, but I'm not sure which libraries or library
directories I should move/rsync. I'm also worried this way of doing it could
be brittle since I could add dependencies that install stuff
in different places and forget to add them which would mess up my deployment
process a bit and require further manual intervention.

* Compile on the server: It's really convenient since I could copy the
source to the server and do a cabal-install there, but I'm afraid it will
stress the server too much while compiling (granted, won't be often on
production), but also keeping ghc and cabal on the server requires the extra
work of keeping them up to date in an unobtrusive fashion. I tend to break
my ghc install rather frequently, I wouldn't like to find myself logging in
to production to fix a broken ghc/cabal/haskell platform install.

Thanks for your advice, also let me know if you think I'm too much of a
slacker, unlucky, or worrying too much about nothing.

cheers
----nubis :)
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