On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen <marius.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Benjamin Podszun > <benjamin.pods...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's the latter that bugs me for now. How do you do it? Just git pull? >> Do you use a separate staging system to avoid trashing your production >> scripts? Are there manual steps involved (db migration, configuration >> changes)? > > Actually, I'd recommend using a more formal deployment strategy. What we use > on gitorious.org is a tool called Capistrano (http://capify.org/. We have a > deployment recipe that describes the environment we deploy to and lets us > deploy using a CLI. Capistrano has tools for deploying with/without > migrations, restarting the application servers, disabling the site and many > more. > The deployment recipe describes things like: > - the servers to deploy to and their roles (ie web, db, app etc.) > - the git repository and branch to deploy from > - custom tasks (eg. restart the poller, git daemon etc.) > Capistrano deploys each release to a location on the file system of your > servers, and then creates a symlink from the latest revision to the location > served by Apache/Nginx. If a deployment fails, Capistrano easily lets you > roll back to the previous revision. It also lets you execute any kind of > command on the server(s) - usually over an SSH connection. capify.org has > some example recipes to get you going.
Thanks for that, I will look into it. What I'm still missing though is: When - and how - do you update? Do you regularly pull? And what? Do you follow any kind of release cycle? See: I installed it using a random revision from git. How would I go on keeping it up to date? Is there a formal way? A recommendation? You helped a lot answering the "how to deploy and don't f.. up the system" part, but I'm still not sure when to update and if it's a good idea to follow "master". Thanks, Ben -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
