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