Deployer VS Capistrano

Compare Deployer vs Capistrano and see what are their differences.

Deployer

The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box (by deployphp)

Capistrano

A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH. (by capistrano)
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Deployer Capistrano
47 10
10,304 12,651
0.6% 0.2%
8.0 6.0
7 days ago about 2 months ago
PHP Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Deployer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Deployer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.

Capistrano

Posts with mentions or reviews of Capistrano. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Deployer and Capistrano you can also consider the following projects:

Envoy - Elegant SSH tasks for PHP.

Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

Rocketeer

Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.

Magallanes - The PHP Deployment Tool

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

Pomander - Deploy your PHP with PHP. Inspired by Capistrano and Vlad.

Deployinator

Plum - A deployer library for PHP 5.3

Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale

PHPloy - PHPloy - Incremental Git (S)FTP deployment tool that supports multiple servers, submodules and rollbacks.

Rubber - A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.