scripts/quick-deploy

Quick Deploy

Quick Deploy is a simple and dirty script-based solution for continous delivery.

See also my corresponding blog post.

Basic idea

You have a Git server (like Gitea, but just a bare repo should also work) where you host a repo that you want to deploy somewhere. The somewhere (same or other server) has a Web Server with PHP capabilities running (my use case: I develop a TYPO3 site package, TYPO3 runs on PHP). In your Git repo (server-side) you define post-receive Git hook which just sends a simple HTTP GET request your deploy-server (over HTTTPS, of course) like https://example.com/quick-deploy.php?secret=YOUR_SECRET. Where your secret is known to you, your git post-receive hook and the quick-deploy script. If the given secret matches the predefinded than a pull request in the given repository is attempted. It git fails, a 500 error will be returned. Additionally the git output will be printed.

Setup

1. Download the quick-deploy.php script and the config.example.json in a public accesible folder on your server where you want to deploy your code.
2. Create a secret. For example run openssl rand -base64 42
3. Copy (or rename) the config.example.json and edit it to your liking. You can find a list of options and their requirement later. Remove the example file afterwards.
4. Set correct permissions on config.json. It needs to be readable by the quick-deploy.php script (presumably run by the user www-data) but must not be accessible over the web. Otherwise your secret is no longer one. chmod 600 config.json should do that.
5. Create g Git post-receive-hook in your Git repository like the following:

#!/bin/sh
curl https://your.deploy.server/quick-deploy.php?secret=YOUR_SECRET

Configuration variables

Here is a alphabetically list of possible configuration variables and if it is necessary that their set.

Key	Default	Required	Description
branch	master	No	Branch which should be used
local-path	N/A	Yes	Path of the deployed git repository
remote-path	N/A	Yes	Path or URL of the remote Git repository
secret	N/A	Yes	Secret which is exchanged as GET paramter

Contribute

Feel free to contribute if you want to.