shipit

Minimalistic SSH deployment.

Installation

Copy this one-liner and run it in your shell:

SHPT=/usr/local/bin/shipit && curl -o $SHPT https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sapegin/shipit/master/bin/shipit && chmod +x $SHPT && unset SHPT

You can use this command to update shipit too.

Note: Use sudo or replace /usr/local/bin/shipit to path somewhere inside your home directory.

Usage

shipit [option] <command>

Commands

Command	Aliases	Description
<target>		Execute target target on the remote host
list	ls	Print list of available targets
console	shell, ssh	Open an SSH session on remote host
exec <cmd>	run	Execute cmd on the remote host
copy <file>	cp	Copy files to the remote host
--version	-V	Print shipit version
--help	-h	Print help

Options

Option	Description
-c, --config	Config file path (default: .shipit)
-r, --remote	Override remote host
-v, --verbose	Enable verbose mode for SSH

Examples

Execute deploy target:

shipit

Execute status target:

shipit status

Show a list of available targets:

shipit list

Execute uptime command on the remote host:

shipit exec uptime

Configuration

You need to create .shipit file in your project’s directory.

Here is a typical config:

host='myhost'
path='sites/example.com'

[deploy:local]
git push origin master

[deploy]
git checkout master
git pull
npm install
grunt build

[status]
uptime

The only required things are host and path parameters, and [deploy] or [deploy:local] target.

For non-standard port number and to specify which SSH key to use, edit your SSH config, ~/.ssh/config:

host example.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keyfile
port 10022
user usernamehere

Parameters

host

It’s the same host you use in ssh command. It could be string of format <username>@<ip>:<port> or just a name of ~/.ssh/config record.

path

Project path on remote host. shipit will cd to this directory before executing any command.

Targets

Target is just a bunch of shell command that will be executed on remote host via SSH. You can define as many targets as you want.

Note that you can’t use blank lines inside targets but you can use comments (#) and other things—it’s just a shell script.

Local targets

If you append :local to a target name (like [name:local]) it will be executed on your local machine before remote target with the same name. You can define only local, only remote or both targets.

In case of any errors in local target remote target won’t be executed.

You can use these variables:

• $SSH_HOST — your config’s host value,
• $SSH_PATH — your config’s path value.

Examples

Deploy from Git

host='myhost'
path='sites/example.com'

[deploy:local]
git push origin master

[deploy]
git checkout master
git pull
npm install
npm prune
npm run build

Deploy with rsync

host='myhost'
path='sites/example.com'

[deploy:local]
npm test
npm run build
rsync --archive --compress --force --delete public/ $SSH_HOST:$SSH_PATH

Changelog

The changelog can be found on the Releases page.

Sponsoring

This software has been developed with lots of coffee, buy me one more cup to keep it going.

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Authors and license

Artem Sapegin and contributors.

MIT License, see the included License.md file.