SSH Test

SSH Test is a dummy app used to test Jenkins ability to SSH to various servers using SSHKit and Capistrano.

There are a couple of useful commands. Even so, it needs certain environment variables set.

• USER - The user to SSH as.
• DEPLOY_PATH - Path to deploy in.
• SCM_USERNAME - SCM username (GitHub)
• SERVER - Array of servers to test.
• CHECK_APP - Name of the app process
• APP_URL - A url to do a quick and dirty check on to see if its still alive.

Commands

Helpful commands exist 🐒 🔧

bundle exec cap apache:shutdown                # Shuts down apache
bundle exec cap apache:startup                 # Starts up apache
bundle exec cap apache:status                  # Checks apache's running status
bundle exec cap check:app_running              # Check that the app process is running
bundle exec cap check:app_sanity               # Check that the app is running
bundle exec cap check:rvm                      # Check that we have RVM installed
bundle exec cap check:write_permissions        # Check that we can access everything