How Do You Manage Dev/Test/Production Environments?

An anonymous reader writes "I am a n00b system administrator for a small web development company that builds and hosts OSS CMSes on a few LAMP servers (mostly Drupal). I've written a few scripts that check out dev/test/production environments from our repository, so web developers can access the site they're working on from a URL (ex: site1.developer.example.com). Developers also get FTP access and MySQL access (through phpMyAdmin). Additional scripts check in files to the repository and move files/DBs through the different environments. I'm finding as our company grows (we currently host 50+ sites) it is cumbersome to manage all sites by hacking away at the command prompt. I would like to find a solution with a relatively easy-to-use user interface that provisions dev/test/live environments. The Aegir project is a close fit, but is only for Drupal sites and still under heavy development. Another option is to completely rewrite the scripts (or hire someone to do it for me), but I would much rather use something OSS so I can give back to the community. How have fellow slashdotters managed this process, what systems/scripts have you used, and what advice do you have?"pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/20/1733228/How-Do-You-Manage-DevTestProduction-Environments?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/20/1733228"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/20/1733228/How-Do-You-Manage-DevTestProduction-Environments?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N-oMAz6PmMrk6UVwKvSiPhwXfOI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N-oMAz6PmMrk6UVwKvSiPhwXfOI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N-oMAz6PmMrk6UVwKvSiPhwXfOI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N-oMAz6PmMrk6UVwKvSiPhwXfOI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/diBwkBHoKTo" height="1" width="1"/

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