What is a good way to deploy Catalyst applications to a production server? Currently I simply have a FastCGI dispatch script in the root of the repository and when I want to update the server code, I push the branch to the server. This is quite simple, but not perfect. If the code fails the tests on the server machine (for example because of unsatisfied dependencies), I am left with broken application. How do you deploy your Catalyst applications? Do you have a better way?
A combination of a proxy load-balancer and two flip-flop fastcgi applications running alternatively as production and staging applications would be your best bet. What web server are you using? If it happens to be Lighttpd, then have a look at these links:
To deal with the unsatisfied dependencies issue, I use a script that runs svn export for the entire app-tree to a separate directory, sets the environment appropriately and then executes:
perl -MMyApp -e '{print "OK"}'
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "MyApp failed compile, not installing."
exit 1
fi
That's quite sufficient to ensure any modules installed in dev are available before recycling Apache and/or FastCGI. Once it succeeds the exported code is moved to its final location.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1651267/what-are-best-practices-for-deploying-a-catalyst-application-to-a-production-ser