What is deploy commander?¶
A tool mainly used for remotely executing sysadmin tasks. As the name might give you a clue... it’s power lies with managing deployments/software builds for continuous integration flows.
Deploy commander is build directly on python/fabric, but can be used for any project.
Main goal of this application is to configure your deployment by using a generic set of predefined actions.
There are other flavors for setting up your dtap... we’re focussing on simplicity and transparancy in a centralized application to manage different deployments (applications) for multiple apps build in different languages on different servers.
We’re building a lot if handy features for sysadmins and developers that will make your life easier.
Stuff like:
- Git checkout and update
- Create/ensure folders dynamicly
- Backup database on deployment
- Import database
- Download files (like assets) for backup.
- Upload files (like assets) for preperation
- Upload templates for dynamic settings
Note
This application is still in it’s development phase.
Integration with other systems¶
We’re still in beta mode, but we’ve released a initial version for integration with bitbucket.
See the integration section for more info.
What it’s not!¶
- Puppet, (can be used for setting up server software but verry handy in your project!)
- Chef (See Puppet)
- Sys ops server management (See puppet/Chef)
- Jenkins (CI Server, we might build an equivelent :))
- Capistrano (Allso used for deployments... but mostly used per project/site...)
Cases¶
- You would like to setup a project on different ubuntu machines.
- Download assets from server x, and upload them to server y.
- Deploy a new version of your app to a server, and backup the database before running migrations
- More...
Main goals¶
- Centralized deployment
- Ease of deployments
- Ease of sysadmin tasks
- Simplified deployment by simple configurations
- Unix based environments
- Continuous integration