Practice deploying, how to do?

Question

Today many languages have practices of deploy that automates the whole process, concept as IC (Continuous Integration).

At each commit in the repository is deploy (I believe that Jenkins or Capistrano) performs unit/TDD testing and if everything is ok it sends the files to the server.

My doubts is how the deploy for PHP applications and what tools are used for this ?

Jenkins and Capistrano. They are usually used in Ruby. Jenkins allows you to perform unit testing or any other tests and if all goes through deploy to the server. Who does the management deploy on the server is Capistrano, it keeps the files of the last release that was working correctly and creates a symbolic link to the new release that has been raised and if any failure occurs in the new release the Capistrano back point to the release previous.

I want to understand how to use Jenkins and Capistrano for PHP applications or similar tools.

Answer 1

I don’t understand what you want exactly, but there are two tools for this

1. Simple PHP Git deploy script:

   Automatically deploys code using PHP and Git.

   • Repository: https://github.com/markomarkovic/simple-php-git-deploy
   • (this step is only required in private Reposorios) go to https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/settings/keys and add your server SSH key.
   • Go up to https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/settings/hooks.
   • Click add webhook to the Webhooks panel.
   • Sign in with the Payload url to deploy the ex script: http://example.com/deploy.php?sat=YourSecretAccessTokenFromDeployFile.

2. Deployer

   • Download: http://deployer.org
   • Documentation: http://deployer.org/docs

3. As the author requested Jekins for PHP

   • Jenkins for PHP: http://jenkins-php.org

     _{Requirements: Phpunit, Php_codesniffer, PHPLOC, Php_depend, PHPMD, PHPCPD and phpDox}

Note: From what I’ve read about, you can rather deploy PHP applications with it, pretty much the same way you deploy apps written in Ruby.

Answer 2

There is an article in English explaining how deploy is done with Git Article in English, edited Portuguese version Translated and Edited

Excerpt from the article: Local repository If you already have a local repository, jump to the pícoximo passo. It all starts with creating a simple Git repository: Tools used during the process:

$ mkdir website && cd website
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/thiagobelem/website/.git/
$ echo 'Olá, mundo!' > index.html
$ git add index.html
$ git commit -q -m "Iniciando o repositório"

Now that your local repository is ready, index.html has been created and the first commit done, let’s create the remote repository in the production environment (server where the site is/will run). Remote repository Assuming that your site will run on a server that you have SSH access facilitated, we will create the repository there that will be a copy of the local server:

$ mkdir website.git && cd website.git
$ git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/thiagobelem/website.git/

Now let’s start creating git-hook that will be responsible for copying all the files - from the Bare repository - to the folder where the site will run, in the production environment:

$ cat > hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/meusite.com.br git checkout -f
$ chmod +x hooks/post-receive

Note that we first set the GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable as the site’s root and then run a git checkout -f that will move the files without a trace from your Git repository. Now just go back to your machine and add the remote repository:

$ git remote add web ssh://meusite.com.br/home/thiagobelem/website.git
$ git push web +master:refs/heads/master

Updating the files As you work on the site and want to update the server on-air, just run the command (after you commit):

git push web

As the focus changed to Jenkins I will leave some links of PHP usage tutorials with Jenkins as a complement.

• PHP Slideshare with Jenkins
• http://jenkins-php.org/
• Integrated with other tools like Composer
• Installation and configuration
• Installation and configuration American Tutorial

Git

• Link to download: http://git-scm.com/

Deployer

• Link to download: http://deployer.org/

Heroku

• Access Link: https://www.heroku.com/