deplorator

Deplorator(deploy-creator) is a RESTful deploy manager meant to isolate your production servers from the CI server in order to improve security.

It listen on a RESTful HTTP interface and waits for the deploy command. To deploy, it basically runs a pre-deploy command, runs git fetch, git checkout <commit>, git submodule update and then a post-deploy command.

Installation

To install deplorator, just use npm:

npm install -g deplorator

Server Usage

To start a server just use the following command:

deplorator -p <port> -f <config file>

Where 5000 is the port to listen to.

Configuration File

The configuration file is as simple as follow:

{
	"<configuration-name>": {
		"path": "<local git repo path>",
		"preDeploy": "<command to be executed before the deploy>",
		"postDeploy": "<command to be executed after the deploy>"
	}
}

Example:

{
	"production-api": {
		"path": "/home/deploy/production-api",
		"preDeploy": "pm2 stop production-api",
		"postDeploy": "npm install && npm update && pm2 start production-api"
	}
}

Client Usage

Deplorator has a utility to start a deploy, deplorator-cli, that can be used as follow:

deplorator-cli -e <endpoint> <configuration> <commit>

For example:

deplorator-cli -e http://localhost:5000 production-api 94fde93

Direct Access

You can use deplorator with curl if you want, like this:

curl -XPOST http://<endpoint>/<config>/deploy -d 'commit=<commit sha>'

For example:

curl -XPOST http://localhost:5000/production-api/deploy -d 'commit=94fde93'