druploy

Introduction

Druploy is an agile deployment tool based on Fabric and Drush that makes deploying instances of Drupal projects fast and easy. It depends on the Chef Drupal Cookbook

There are some other Drupal deployment tools available (e.g Aegir is an amazing tool) but they are quite heavy and don't work as I would like with a number of standard scenarios.

Druploy intends to ease some very standard, day to day problems in the workflow of a Drupal agency

1. Enable the quick onboarding of a new developer into an existing project (by being able to type a single command to have a working copy of a project set up on his machine)
2. Make it easy to show a customer a development/developer branch on a publicly accessable new staging vhost
3. Make it easy for developers to move code/files/databases between development and staging machines
4. Be able to deploy a new site based on a branch and database/file snapshots in a single command
5. Make feature branching a single command (druploy branch command will create a new local git branch, database, files and update settings files)

Requirements

1. Python 2.7.x
2. Fabric
3. A server could be configured manually with Git, Drush, PHP, Apache, MySQl etc. But the best shortcut to configure your server is to use the accompanying chef Drupal recipe Drupal Cookbook

Installation

1. Install Python, Fabric, Chef

2. cp examples/servers.yaml servers.yaml 2.1 Configure the correct usernames and passwords

   sudo ln -s /path/to/checkout/bin/druploy /usr/bin/druploy

Usage

The following example will collect code, database and files from a project not managed by Druploy, and deploy them to the domain www.mydrupalsite.com on the server named "live" in your servers.yaml

druploy server:local source:/path/to/drupal/sites/default code:git@git.domain.com:repo.git,branch=test database:updating=True files:updating=True server:live project:new deploy:live domain:www.mydrupalsite.com