Published: Wed, 11/05/14Download this episodeDeployotron

• What is Deployotron?
  It’s a deployment tool.
  A low-key approach to easy and safe deployment.
• When did you start developing it?
  Dec. 2013
• Why did you feel it was necessary to add another layer on top of Drush?
  Needed simple, safe, easy to grok deployment process. Not a Swiss army knife. Other solutions proved to be either too complex/feature-rich or require 3rd party software beyond a simple drush command.
• How does it work?
  Deployotron is implemented as a drush command.
  When deploying it runs a set of “actions” that does the different steps of deploying.
• What kinds of actions can you perform with Deployotron?
• Is this extendable? Can other developers add their own commands to be performed during deployment?
• Is there a way to configure deployment per environment? So that certain commands are always performed on Staging but not on Live.
• What needs to be setup before you can use Deployotron?
  Deployotron requires drush and the appropriate ssh public keys on the target servers.
  And Git.
• How does it improve the deployment workflow?
  Easy and fast deployment to other enviroments from the command line.
  Quick to set up for a new project.
• What if you mess up? Is there a rollback feature?
  There’s an OMG command which will import a dump and reset the codebase to the one that was deployed at the time.
• How does this integrate with other tools like Capistrano, Aegir, etc.
  It doesn’t. Deployotron was meant to be more of an alternative; a simpler one.
• So, is this aimed at people hosting on shared hosts? Or do you need a VPS at minimum?
  Not aimed at shared hosts, as such, but it does support it, given that you have ssh access and drush availability of course.

Use Cases

• How are you guys using it at Reload?
  Very carefully :-)
  With careless abandon.
• Do you know of anyone else using it?
  No, not specificly, but there was some interest at the DrupalHagen DrupalCamp.

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