Envoyer inspired Envoy script

Nice one :)

Nice :)

I did this just the other day and it's working nicely.

My issue is this - and it doesn't appear your solution tackles it at all @davidrushton - I want to clean up the old releases so I don't end up with hundreds of copies of the code. I've tried the following:

rm -rf `ls -dt {{ $release_dir }}/* | tail -n +6`;

What this should do is list the releases with the most recent first, then remove the 6th and oldest records.

I'm just getting en ls: /path/to/releases/*: No such file or directory.

Any help would be appreciated. I suspect the backticks are causing issues here.

For those who haven't seen it, a while back Servers for Hackers had a two part series for using Envoy to do symlink deployments like the ones mentioned here:

https://serversforhackers.com/video/deploying-with-envoy-cast

https://serversforhackers.com/video/enhancing-envoy-deployment

Only mention it since there are some good tips and enhancements offered there regarding better handling of user and owner ACL permissions, more efficient git cloning by only getting the HEAD of the master branch, and others. Might be some good enhancements to add.

Tested the script and it is working well. As a quick test I was able to get a cleanup routine of old releases going by adding this to the end of the "deploy" task:

cd {{ $path }};
ls -1d 20* | head -n -5 | xargs -d '\n' rm -Rf

This will sort all the release directories (ones that start with 20*), in descending order, then will keep all but the highest (most recent) 5, and then do a remove on these listed directories. So far seems to work as a starting point.

Thanks @noeldiaz - that worked like a charm! Now I have envoy for my staging deploys and Envoyer for production. Happy days :D

@noeldiaz - Thanks for the heads up, I just watched @fideloper 's Servers for Hackers videos on Envoy and they are really helpful. Also thanks for the cleanup command - that was on the TODO list.

@davidrushton Haha I was also inspired to make such a script. I actually started working on it while creating another layer of an endpoint in my application that will respond only to bitbucket, gitlab and github (based on IP check and more). Guess I don't need to make my own Envoy script now :P

Thanks for sharing!

Just a heads up f or anyone that used (or might use) the Envoy Deploy script at https://github.com/papertank/envoy-deploy.

I've just updated the repository to v2 based on some of the refactors i'd made on my own copy.

It's also much easier to use within a Laravel project / repository now: you just copy the Envoy.blade.php file and then put your server host and path in the .env. Readme has been updated with the details: https://github.com/papertank/envoy-deploy/blob/master/readme.md

Thanks.