Deploying to multiple servers

Question

I have to deploy my php/html/css/etc code to multiple servers and i am looking at my options for software that allows easy and secure deployment to multiple servers.

Answer 1

Setting up password-less publickey authentication with ssh would allow you to scp your files to any of your servers very quickly (or be automated by a shell script).

Here's a simple tutorial: http://rcsg-gsir.imsb-dsgi.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/documents/internet/node31.html

Answer 2

Capistrano setup is just too complicated. We found that KwateeSDCM was very straightforward to use with a simple web interface and no scripting. We've got our deployment configuration done in no time for Dev and QA configuration on windows and linux servers.

Answer 3

I also forgot to mention that if you use rsync, you can set up rsync to use ssh, so you will only transfer the files that have changed, saving on time and bandwidth.

Answer 4

I concur -- set your svn tree up, and use rsync over ssh to copy the tree out to the remote locations. rsync will make it fast and efficient, only copying changes rather than full files.

You want to export your svn tree to some directory, then rsync from there to the remote host's directory tree.

Answer 5

I had marked a post on how to deploy your websites using Subversion : http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/02/I2c-for-one2c-welcome-our-new-revision-control-overlords!.aspx