There's an interesting presentation from a chef conference at http://dev2ops.org/2012/05/using-rundeck-and-chef-to-build-devops-toolchains-at-chefcon/ which covers using a set of open source tools to manage software product development and release.

• Git - Source code control
• Ant & Ivy - build tool, dependencies
• Jenkins or Bamboo - Build orchestration console
• Artifactory or Nexus - Package repository
• Rundeck - Deploy tool
• Chef - Deploy side config management

The video covers creating RPM packages for distribution onto a Centos or Red Hat Enterprise system.

• Pass version number (including Jenkins build number) to ant build.

References

• http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/05/02/continuous-integration-with-bamboo-on-linux/
• http://dev2ops.org/2012/05/using-rundeck-and-chef-to-build-devops-toolchains-at-chefcon/
• http://rundeck.org/#LearnMore