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

I'll second Capistrano. It's incredibly powerful and flexible. Our current project uses Capistrano for deploying to different servers as well as multiple servers. We pass two arguments to the cap command: 1) the name of the set of machine specific config options to run and 2) the name of the action to run

ends up looking like this:

cap -f deploy.rb live deploy

or

cap -f deploy.rb dev deploy

Of course the default use case - deploy to lots of machines at once - is a doddle with Capistrano AND you don't need to have Capistrano on the machines you are deploying to. All in all, tasty technology.