I ended up posting a question on the capistrano users list here, and got the following response from Jamis (edited a bit by me here for clarity): Try the HOSTS environment variable: cap HOSTS=app2.example.com production deploy Note that doing this will treat app2 as being in every role, not just whichever role(s) it happens to … Read more
Most Probable cause of your problem would be SSH connection. When a task requires a long execution time SSH timeouts. I faced such problem once, in order to overcome the SSH timeout thing, create a ansible.cfg in the current directory from which your are running Ansible add the following: [ssh_connection] ssh_args = -o ServerAliveInterval=n Where … Read more
The maven-deploy-plugin allows you to configure the deploy phase to deploy to a server using scp. There is a page in the documentation that describes how it can be done. I believe this will replace the normal deployment instead of add to it, so it may not be what you’re after. If you need to … Read more
I found the best way to edit code in development is install everything as usual (including cloning your app’s repository), but move all the code in the container to say /srv/myapp.deploy.dev. Then start the container with a rw volume for /srv/myapp, and a init.d script that cleans that volume and copies the new contents inside … Read more
“Best practices” are very context-dependent, so I won’t claim my practices are best, just that they work for me. I work on mostly small sites, so no multiple-server deployments, CDNs etc. I do need to support Webfaction shared hosting deployment, as some clients need the cheapest hosting they can find. I do often have to … Read more
Reloading nginx is safer than restarting because before old process will be terminated, new configuration file is parsed and whole process is aborted if there are any problems with it. On the other hand when you restart nginx you might encounter situation in which nginx will stop, and won’t start back again, because of syntax … Read more