Capistrano

Capistrano: Automate Script Execution on Multiple Servers

Open source tool for deploying applications and managing servers, saving time and effort

What is Capistrano?

Capistrano is an open source remote server automation and deployment tool. It provides a framework and set of conventions for running scripts on one or more servers, typically used for deploying web applications.

Some key features and benefits of Capistrano include:

• Automating application deployments, rolls back, etc.
• Running tasks in parallel on multiple servers
• Defining roles for servers (app, db, etc.) and running appropriate tasks
• Check current revisions and roll back if needed
• Automatically detects and connects to multiple servers
• Flexible configuration and hooks for custom deploy scripts
• Large open source community with many plugins and extensions

Capistrano is commonly used to deploy Ruby on Rails and other web applications to Ubuntu or other Linux servers. It allows developers and ops teams to easily, reliably and repeatedly deploy new versions of an application with minimal effort. Compared to manual SSH deployments, it improves consistency, reduces errors and saves time dealing with multi-server deployments.

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