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Simple and Powerful Drupal Site Deployment with Capistrano

PreviousNext Technical Director, Kim Pepper explains how to effectively manage site deployment and take control of your releases using Capistrano.

by kim.pepper /

Are you still using FTP to deploy changes to your sites?Kim Pepper explains how to effectively manage deployment using Capistrano.

When you run the one-line deploy command you get:

  • Automatic database backup
  • Pull in changes from a git repository
  • Automatic 'update db' call
  • Automatic cache flush
  • Ability to roll back releases
  • Support for mulitple servers, including separate varnish, app and db servers