Continuous Delivery... The Ruby Way - SilverStripe and Capistrano Working Hand in Hand

Continuous Delivery… The Ruby WayMatthew Rayner

What’s with the title?

I love shipping

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I Love Ruby


I Love SilverStripe


I’m a lazy developer

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I hate uploading files


I hate uploading files

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– capistranorb.com

“A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby.”

http://capistranorb.com

cap production deploy

cap production deployEnvironment

cap production deployEnvironment Task

Why is Capistrano great?


• It does the heavy lifting for you



• It gets out of your way




• It comes with ‘sensible defaults’




• It comes with ‘sensible defaults’

• It’s flexible and easily extendable

It tries to make deployments as safe and fault-tolerant as possible

A useless tasksimple

A useless task

1. Connect to the three servers in parallel

simple

A useless task

1. Connect to the three servers in parallel2. Get their uptime

simple

A useless task

1. Connect to the three servers in parallel2. Get their uptime3. Report it back

simple

Capistrano Hooks

Capistrano Server Side

– I probably said something like that earlier

“Capistrano allows you to write your own commands and scripts.”

What is SilverStripe Capistrano?


• A set of ‘tasks’ for Capistrano designed to automate deployments on SilverStripe



• Should make it easier




• Should make it safer




• Should make it safer

• Should make it more fun to ship!

The demo of DOOM

Thanks!@mattrayner

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