ClickDeploy

One click deployments from GitHub

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One click deployments from GitHub

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Hey Gilbert, congratulations on the launch. As someone who's considering our deployment setup and looking at deploybot.com (formerly dploy.io), why would I choose clickdeploy over this?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@fredrivett Thanks Fred. Good question. For a start, ClickDeploy is designed to be simple and do one thing well (deployments from GitHub). There are other, more technical and complex apps that allow you to do the same thing. However, none of them are as straightforward to use as ClickDeploy (I'm speaking from experience as I've used both Dploy and Envoyer in the past). Also ClickDeploy is cheaper (discounting Deploybot's free plan).

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11yr ago

@gilbitron Thanks for the reply Gilbert! Would you say that ClickDeploy does deployments better than DeployBot? I've not used DeployBot yet, but intrigued how ClickDeploy is better in that regard.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@fredrivett I'm not sure if it does them better or not as that would depend on how you define "better". As far as I'm aware Deploybot has its own deployment system, whereas ClickDeploy uses SSH and Git (making it simple and fast).

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11yr ago

@gilbitron Gotcha. Thanks for taking the time to clarify Gilbert.

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11yr ago

What all does this do, exactly? It's hard to tell from the website. Does this just essentially SSH in a do a "git clone" or "git pull" on your server? Does this setup and provision a whole new server from scratch? Does the server already have to be setup and everything installed for this to work? Etc...

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11yr ago

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Maker

@vlucas Hi Vance. Have you seen the demo video? Essentially yes ClickDeploy SSHs to your already setup server and does a "git clone/pull". It does not deal with provisioning servers, its strictly for code deployment from GitHub.

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11yr ago

Camera Club

Can I release a tagged version from github? That is another way to achieve rollbacks. That is a minimum requirement for me. What is the workflow clickdeploy recommends for a botched release where you need to rollback?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@kenleland ClickDeploy relies on a branching workflow. So normally people would develop on a "develop" branch and then merge to "master" to deploy. Meaning "master" is a representation of a deployed site. ClickDeploy allows you to select the branch that gets deployed. If you need to rollback you could rollback any commits as you normally would in Git. Then merge with the "master" branch and it will deploy a "rollback".

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11yr ago

Neocities

Apparently the service is closing down at the end of October. @gilbitron any interest to open source this on GitHub ? It's a useful tool!

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11yr ago

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Maker

@duanewilsonsf I didn't have any plans to open source the code but if there is enough interest I will consider it.

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11yr ago

Pushh

Hey Gilbert, I'm always impressed by what you are building and had trouble seeing how it worked when I first looked at the site. Maybe you should upload a screencast of a basic "Add a server, add a repo, and make everything work together" just so people can see how it would improve their current way of going live. Keep up the good work mate!

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11yr ago

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Maker

@snapeuh Thanks Romain. I'm already planning to add a screencast so thanks for the feedback.

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11yr ago

Pushh

@gilbitron @snapeuh Glad to hear!

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11yr ago

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Maker

@snapeuh Video added.

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11yr ago

Pushh

@gilbitron @snapeuh Great video, much clearer now! Thanks Gilbert!

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11yr ago

Mux

I don't see a huge value in going to a UI to deploy something. As a developer I'm always on the command line and clis fit my workflow best. If this tool had rollback functionality that could be useful.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@dylanjha Thanks for the feedback Dylan. A UI is not for everyone, but thats not the only feature of ClickDeploy. Simple pre/post deployment hooks and the ability to deploy config files (that aren't stored in the repo) are also useful features. Rollback functionality is an interesting idea. I'll add that to my list.

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11yr ago

Mux

@gilbitron pre/post hooks and config files are nice features. Can a developer set all this up with click deploy, then use a CLI to trigger the deploy? It would be nice to have a CLI or API interface for developers that prefer that, and for integrating with continuous integration

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11yr ago

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Maker

@dylanjha At the moment we don't have any CLI integration but it is another good idea that I'll add to my list.

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11yr ago

Flowla

Great product! But I have a question. Does ClickDeploy have an advantage over deploying with a fab file ?

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11yr ago

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