Comments on: How can we quickly deploy to multiple LAMP environments?

Question: How can we quickly deploy to multiple LAMP environments?

hitopshelf — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:57:52 -0800

Are there any tools to help with deploying LAMP sites to multiple environments?

We have 3 Ubuntu Server environments (development, preview, and production) that need to have file and database updates pushed through multiple times a day.

We're manually using MySQL Administrator for database restores and Beyond Compare 3 for file updates but there has to be a more automated way.

The database and file systems between the environments end up nearly identical because the project is still in development and we have everything under source control.

Are there any good tools or CLI tricks that can handle quick backup and restore of the database and mirror of the file system?

By: avex

avex — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:30:57 -0800

I have started to use Capistrano to deploy sites for a LAMP setup with a wordpress based site using Subversion for version control. From the CLI I just type "cap deploy" and away it goes.

Capistrano is mostly used by the RoR guys, but it has been working great for me with LAMP and subversion. I found out how to do it from a informative blog post.

By: jenkinsEar

jenkinsEar — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:37:44 -0800

for file system mirror, rsync is the usual choice. It can tunnel via ssh, so that works well in a remote environment, and it only copies changes. Alternately, tagged version releases through your version control system works.

By: cdmwebs

cdmwebs — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:22:18 -0800

Seconding capistrano. It was designed to easily complete tasks across multiple servers from a command line.

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:18:38 -0800

fabric is pretty cool.

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:42:35 -0800

Fabric, capistrano, puppet, xCAT, slack...