THthunderbong·Jun 17, 2023Submission
Sshkit: Ruby toolkit for deploying code in a repeatable, testable, reliable way
4 points · Open discussioncapistrano
sshkit
Ruby2014–2023
capistrano / sshkit
sshkit
A toolkit for deploying code and assets to servers in a repeatable, testable, reliable way.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.2KGitHub stars
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What it is
A toolkit for deploying code and assets to servers in a repeatable, testable, reliable way.
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Observed mentions: 2014-12-07 15:33:16 UTC to 2023-06-17 03:48:48 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesActually we're planning to keep improving it, I factored out the SSH driver into SSHKit (http://github.com/capistrano/sshkit) when I did the v3 rewrite. Right now we are founding a company, and hiring a team to build Harrow, the tool we all wish existed to tidy up some of the workflow loose ends, and bring some order (whilst maintaining flexibility) to what might otherwise being DevOps chaos. Find it (not launched yet) at https://www.harrow.io/. One of our goals for Harrow is to open source that as well as running a hosted service, and using the revenue and expertise to follow the (exceptional) Hashicorp example of building a commercial FOSS company to build excellent, useful software, whilst defining new standards, and providing all the tools people didn't know they needed.
Of course we know that Docker, and Rocket, and to an extent more
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of the AWS tools are automating a lot of these processes, but for every problem they solve, some people can't use them, and we're counting on "script things, run them in a repeatable environment, share the scripts, and results with your team" theme won't go away for a while (ever?), as most of what we do, even with all these modern deployment tools is still programmer duck-tape.