Lightning talk about an old tool for deploy automation: Capistrano. Automation tools are fashion nowadays, however Capistrano is part of those old and mature tools that are very good in certain contexts. If you have to upload your code source to remote server in order to deploy your application, Capistrano can be a good fit. It is also easy to extends to support complex workflows.

1. Christophe Marchal | Software Architect

2. Deploy Automation

3. Open Source
10 years ?

4. Basic components

5. Basic Scenario

6. Installing Capistrano
$ gem install capistrano
$ cd my_project
$ cap install

7. Capistrano Directory

8. Basic Flow: Deploy and Rollback

9. Capfile

10. deploy.rb

11. production.rb

12. Production stack
web
app
db

13. Deploy
$ cap production deploy

14. Deploy directory

15. Advanced flow

16. Advanced flow

17. Is it good for me?

18. Christophe Marchal | Software Architect