Mina VS chruby

After that is ready just run the mina setup command and it will create mina’s folder structure for your project using the parameters you setup before. Read more info on mina setup on their Getting started guide.

However this model is generic to any client-server / monolithic / micro services approach and to any languages and frameworks. In my project I use Mina (Formerly using Capistrano), so that means that on each deployment the script makes a SSH-in to the remote machine and performs the deployment process: Git clone, Git pull, rake db:migrate assets:precompile, puma:restart, etc… Before using Capistrano I was doing all this manually #sigh.

Same with my experience. I could never get Capistrano to work. I blame the never updated documentation that also missing important details here and there so often. Reading the doc is like walking in the woods. In the end I switched to Mina, and finally everything works.

Not to be confused with Mina: blazing fast application deployment tool (https://github.com/mina-deploy/mina)

However this model is generic to any client-server / monolithic / micro services approach and to any languages and frameworks. In my project I use Mina (Formerly using Capistrano), so that means that on each deployment the script makes a SSH-in to the remote machine and performs the deployment process: Git clone, Git pull, rake db:migrate assets:precompile, puma:restart, etc… Before using Capistrano I was doing all this manually #sigh.

I think Capistrano is a good example. Their homepage snippet shows you what a DSL is.

I think it's something like https://capistranorb.com/

That should give you lots of stuff to research but I'll leave you with a final point: Every project is going to be different. Use the right tool for the right job; for a small application you definitely don't need Kubernetes, you might be fine without any pipeline at all. For example, Ruby on Rails projects can use a tool called capistrano to script deploys and you can run that from your local machine any time you need to deploy when your project is still small. As the project grows, you can start thinking about creating a pipeline that simply leverages capistrano from say GH actions or something. The point is, don't go crazy with pipelines - do the minimum amount to make the process smooth and focus the rest of your time and energy on the application itself as that's what the users will actually see and use. Users don't care if you use kubernetes or not.

I personally consider Jenkins a Task Runner that has a massive collection of CI plugins. Anyone can do deployments/delivery from a task runner, but any deployments I had to do in Jenkins ended up needing custom code written to do the actual work. This isn't unique to Jenkins; before the days of kubernetes, we had tools like capistrano or Config Management tools like Chef and Puppet that were capable of doing code deployments.

Two deployment techs I use for non-containerized apps work in roughly the same way. Capistrano And Deployer.

I have a Ruby background where I used to have Capistrano https://capistranorb.com/ for this reason. I was setting up the IP Address, path, SSH credentials, github repository and by executing a command I was able to deploy to a remote server.

The deployment process generally includes making the new version available, directing traffic from the old to the new version, and stopping the old versions. Capistrano has been doing this since 2006. However, what makes Kubernetes deployments better is the minimum number of pods required, and its rollout strategy minimizes or eliminates downtime. For example, a rolling update strategy can ensure new pods gradually replace old pods with configs like maxSurge and maxUnavailable. Because this is done in a declarative way, as a user or operator, you only need to ask Kubernetes to apply a given deployment and Kubernetes does the rest. Next up is the Kubernetes config map.

Has worked well for us on various projects for the past 18 months - prior to that we were using Capistrano.

# Load DSL and set up stages require "capistrano/setup" # Include default deployment tasks require "capistrano/deploy" require 'capistrano/rails' require 'capistrano/bundler' require 'capistrano/rbenv' require 'capistrano/puma' install_plugin Capistrano::Puma::Daemon install_plugin Capistrano::Puma # Load the SCM plugin appropriate to your project: # # require "capistrano/scm/hg" # install_plugin Capistrano::SCM::Hg # or # require "capistrano/scm/svn" # install_plugin Capistrano::SCM::Svn # or require "capistrano/scm/git" install_plugin Capistrano::SCM::Git # Include tasks from other gems included in your Gemfile # # For documentation on these, see for example: # # https://github.com/capistrano/rvm # https://github.com/capistrano/rbenv # https://github.com/capistrano/chruby # https://github.com/capistrano/bundler # https://github.com/capistrano/rails # https://github.com/capistrano/passenger # # Load custom tasks from `lib/capistrano/tasks` if you have any defined Dir.glob("lib/capistrano/tasks/*.rake").each { |r| import r } My installed gems gem "capistrano", require: false gem "capistrano-rails", require: false gem 'capistrano3-puma', require: false gem 'capistrano-rbenv'