deploy

Minimalistic deployment shell script.

Installation

$ make install

Visit the wiki for additional usage information.

Usage

  Usage: deploy [options] <env> [command]

  Options:

    -C, --chdir <path>   change the working directory to <path>
    -c, --config <path>  set config path. defaults to ./deploy.conf
    -T, --no-tests       ignore test hook
    -V, --version        output program version
    -h, --help           output help information

  Commands:

    setup                run remote setup commands
    update               update deploy to the latest release
    revert [n]           revert to [n]th last deployment or 1
    config [key]         output config file or [key]
    curr[ent]            output current release commit
    prev[ious]           output previous release commit
    exec|run <cmd>       execute the given <cmd>
    console              open an ssh session to the host
    list                 list previous deploy commits
    [ref]                deploy to [ref], the 'ref' setting, or latest tag

Configuration

By default deploy(1) will look for ./deploy.conf, consisting of one or more environments, [stage], [production], etc, followed by directives.

[stage]
key /path/to/some.pem
user deployer
host n.n.n.n
port nn
repo git@github.com:visionmedia/express.git
path /var/www/myapp.com
ref origin/master
post-deploy /var/www/myapp.com/update.sh

Directives

key (optional)

Path to identity file used by ssh -i.

  key /path/to/some.pem

ref (optional)

When specified, HEAD is reset to ref. When deploying production typically this will not be used, as deploy(1) will utilize the most recent tag by default, however this is useful for a staging environment, as shown below where HEAD is updated and set to the develop branch.

    ref origin/develop

user

User for deployment.

   user deployer

host

Server hostname.

   host 50.17.255.50

port (optional)

Server port.

   port 22

repo

GIT repository to clone.

   repo git@github.com:visionmedia/express.git

path

Deployment path.

    path /var/www/myapp.com

forward-agent

Webhosts normally use read-only deploy keys to access private git repositories. If you'd rather use the credentials of the person invoking the deploy command, put forward-agent yes in the relevant config sections. Now the deploy script will invoke ssh -A when deploying and there's no need to keep SSH keys on your servers.

needs_tty

If your deployment scripts require any user interaction (which they shouldn't, but often do) you'll probably want SSH to allocate a tty for you. Put needs_tty yes in the config section if you'd like the deploy script to invoke ssh -t and ensure you have a tty available.

Hooks

All hooks are arbitrary commands, executed relative to path/current, aka the previous deployment for pre-deploy, and the new deployment for post-deploy. Of course you may specify absolute paths as well.

pre-deploy

  pre-deploy ./bin/something

post-deploy

  post-deploy ./bin/restart

test

Post-deployment test command after post-deploy. If this command fails, deploy(1) will attempt to revert to the previous deployment, ignoring tests (for now), as they are assumed to have run correctly.

  test ./something

License

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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