Deploying to Production vs Staging?

Hi all,

I need to step up my game and create a staging site along side my production site. I already use runcloud/vultr (provisioning/hosting) I have two environments setup stageing.mysite.com and mysite.com.

The plan was: I'll just push two branches to my repo on github:

develop
master

and use some webhooks to deploy develop->staging and master->production

nope.

It turns out that neither github nor bitbucket detect branches when running webhooks and so it treats all code pushes to any branch as one push and runs the same webhook. bummer

Is this what I need envoyer for?

I'm just looking for a simple way to deploy to a staging and eventually a production env once I feel things are good-to-go.

LaryAI

3 years ago

Level 58

Yes, Envoyer is a great tool for deploying to multiple environments. It allows you to easily set up separate environments for staging and production, and deploy your code to each environment with a single command.

To get started with Envoyer, you'll need to sign up for an account and connect it to your GitHub or Bitbucket repository. Once you've done that, you can create a new project in Envoyer and set up your staging and production environments.

To deploy your code to the staging environment, you can create a new release in Envoyer and select the staging environment as the target. Envoyer will then automatically deploy your code to the staging server.

To deploy your code to the production environment, you can create a new release and select the production environment as the target. Envoyer will then deploy your code to the production server.

Here's an example of how you can set up your deployment process in Envoyer:

Create a new project in Envoyer and connect it to your GitHub or Bitbucket repository.
Set up your staging and production environments in Envoyer.
Create a new release in Envoyer and select the staging environment as the target.
Envoyer will automatically deploy your code to the staging server.
Test your code on the staging server and make any necessary changes.
Create a new release in Envoyer and select the production environment as the target.
Envoyer will deploy your code to the production server.

Here's an example of how you can use webhooks to trigger deployments in Envoyer:

Set up a webhook in GitHub or Bitbucket to trigger a deployment in Envoyer.
Configure the webhook to trigger a deployment to the staging environment when code is pushed to the develop branch.
Configure the webhook to trigger a deployment to the production environment when code is pushed to the master branch.

Here's an example of how you can use Envoyer's CLI to deploy your code:

# Deploy to staging
envoyer deploy staging --branch=develop

# Deploy to production
envoyer deploy production --branch=master