Deployer PHP-CLI

CI/CD Deployment tool written in PHP supported for popular frameworks

FEATURES

Deploy to multiple servers by projects/groups
Yii2, Laravel, Codeigniter3 Frameworks support
Pipeline support for Git, Composer, test and customized tasks
CI/CD automation solution

Helping developers to deploy codes from local instance to remote instances.

OUTLINE

Demonstration
Requirements
Installation
Configuration
- Project Setting
- Config Options
  - Git
  - Composer
  - Test
  - Tests
  - Rsync
  - Commands
- Example
Usage
Implementation
- Permissions Handling
CI/CD
- Webhook
  - PHP Web Setting
  - Gitlab
Additions

DEMONSTRATION

Command Line

Deploy local project to remote servers by just executing the deployer in command after installation:

$ deployer

Alternatively, you could call the original bootstrap: $ ./deployer, $ php ./deployer

The interactive result could like be:

$ deployer

Your available projects in configuration:
  [0] your.project.com
  [1] second.project.com
  [2] other.site.com

  Please select a project [number or project, Ctrl+C to quit]:0

Selected Project: your.project.com
Successful Excuted Task: Git
Successful Excuted Task: Composer
Successful Excuted Task: Composer
Successful Excuted Task: Test UnitTest
Successful Excuted Task: Commands before: Minify assets
Successful Excuted Task: Deploy to 127.0.0.11
Successful Excuted Task: Deploy to 127.0.0.12
Successful Excuted Task: Deploy
Successful Excuted Task: Commands after: Email notification

Or you could run by non-interactive mode with the same purpose:

$ deployer --project="your.project.com"

REQUIREMENTS

This library requires the following:

PHP(CLI) 5.4.0+
RSYNC

INSTALLATION

Composer Installation

Using Composer by sudoer or root to install is the easiest way with auto-installer:

composer create-project --prefer-dist yidas/deployer-php-cli

Wget Installation

You could see Release for picking up the package with version, for example:

$ wget https://github.com/yidas/deployer-php-cli/archive/master.tar.gz -O deployer-php-cli.tar.gz

After download, uncompress the package:

$ tar -zxvf deployer-php-cli.tar.gz

In addition, you can rename the unzipped folder by mkdir deployer-php-cli && tar -zxvf deployer-php-cli.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C deployer-php-cli

Make Command

To make a command for deployer, if the package folder is deployer-php-cli then create a symbol by following command:

$ sudo chmod +x $(pwd -L)/deployer-php-cli/deployer
$ sudo ln -s $(pwd -L)/deployer-php-cli/deployer /usr/bin/deployer

Startup

After installation, you could start to set up the config.inc.php for deployer, and enjoy to use:

$ deployer

Upgrade

To upgrade, you could re-install the deployer and copy the old config.inc.php to the new one, for example:

$ cp ./deployer-php-cli/config.inc.php ./
$ rm -r deployer-php-cli
$ composer create-project --prefer-dist yidas/deployer-php-cli
$ mv ./config.inc.php ./deployer-php-cli

CONFIGURATION

Project Setting:

You need to set up the projects configuration such as servers, source and destination in config.inc.php file:

<?php

return [
    // This project config processes deployment only for simple usage
    'default' => [
        'servers' => [
            '127.0.0.1',
        ],
        'source' => '/home/user/project',
        'destination' => '/var/www/html/prod/',
    ],
];

You could refer config.inc.php file as an example..

Config Options:

Configuration provides many features' setting, you could customize and pick up the setting you need.

Key	Type	Description
servers	array	Distant server host list
user	array\|string	Local/Remote server user, auto detect current user if empty
source	string	Local directory for deploy, use `/` as end means `*`
destination	string	Remote path for synchronism
exclude	array	Excluded files based on sourceFile path
verbose	bool	Enable verbose with more infomation or not

Git

To use Git into deploy task, you need to init or clone Git to the source directory at the first time:

$ git clone git@gitlab.com:username/project-to-deploy.git sourceDir

Key	Type	Description
enabled	bool	Enable git or not
checkout	bool	Execute git checkout -- . before git pull
branch	string	Branch name for git pull, pull default branch if empty
submodule	bool	Git submodule enabled

Composer

To use Composer into deploy task, make sure that there are composer files in the source directory.

Key	Type	Description
enabled	bool	Enable Composer or not
path	string	Composer executing relative path which supports multiple array paths
command	string	Update command likes `composer update`

Test

To use Test into deploy task, make sure that there are test configuration in the source directory.

Key	Type	Description
enabled	bool	Enable Test or not
name	string	The test name for display
type	string	Test type, support `phpunit`.
command	string	The test bootstrap command supported relative filepath such as `./vendor/bin/phpunit`
configuration	string	The test configuration file supported relative filepath such as `./phpunit.xml`

Tests

For multiple test tasks, using array to declare each test options:

return [
    'default' => [
        'tests' => [
            [
                'name' => 'Test Task 1',
                // ...
            ],
            [
                'name' => 'Test Task 2',
                // ...
            ],
        ],
        // ...

Rsync

Key	Type	Description
enabled	bool	Enable rsync or not
params	string	Addition params of rsync command
timeout	int	Timeout seconds of each rsync connections
sleepSeconds	int	Seconds waiting of each rsync connections
identityFile	string	Identity file path for appling rsync

Commands

Commands provides you to customize deploy tasks with many trigger hooks.

Key	Type	Description
init	array	Addition commands triggered at initialization
before	array	Addition commands triggered before deploying
after	array	Addition commands triggered after deploying

Example

Copy project directory form /var/www/html/ to destination under /var/www/html/test/:

'source' => '/var/www/html/project',
'destination' => '/var/www/html/test/',

Copy all files (*) form /var/www/html/project/ to destination under /var/www/html/test/:

'source' => '/var/www/html/project/',
'destination' => '/var/www/html/test/',

USAGE

Usage:
  deployer [options] [arguments]
  ./deployer [options] [arguments]

Options:
  -h, --help            Display this help message
      --version         Show the current version of the application
  -p, --project         Project key by configuration for deployment
      --config          Show the seleted project configuration
      --configuration
      --skip-git        Force to skip Git process
      --skip-composer   Force to skip Composer process
      --git-reset       Git reset to given commit with --hard option
  -v, --verbose         Increase the verbosity of messages

Interactive Project Select

$ deployer

Your available projects in configuration:
  [0] default
  [1] your.project.com

  Please select a project [number or project, Ctrl+C to quit]:your.project.com

Selected Project: your.project.com
Successful Excuted Task: Git
Successful Excuted Task: Composer
Successful Excuted Task: Deploy to 127.0.0.11
Successful Excuted Task: Deploy

Non-Interactive Project Select

$ deployer --project="your.project.com"

Skip Flows

You could force to skip flows such as Git and Composer even when you enable then in config.

$ deployer --project="default" --skip-git --skip-composer

Revert & Reset back

You could reset git to specified commit by using --git-reset option when you get trouble after newest release.

$ deployer --project="default" --git-reset="79616d"

This option is same as executing git reset --hard 79616d in source project.

IMPLEMENTATION

Assuming project1 is the developing project which you want to deploy.

Developers must has their own site to develop, for example:

# Dev host
/var/www/html/dev/nick/project1
/var/www/html/dev/eric/project1

In general, you would has stage project1 which the files are same as production:

# Dev/Stage host
/var/www/html/project1

The purpose is that production files need to be synchronous from stage:

# Production host
/var/www/html/project1

This tool regard stage project as source, which means production refers to destination, so the config file could like:

return [
    'project1' => [
        ...
        'source' => '/var/www/html/project1',
        'destination' => '/var/www/html/',
        ...

After running this tool to deploy project1, the stage project's files would execute processes likes git pull then synchronise to production.

Permissions Handling

1. Local and Remote Users

You could create a user on local for runing Deployer with umask 002. It will run process by the local user you set even you run Deployer by root:

return [
    'project1' => [
         'user' => [
            'local' => 'deployer',
            'remote' => 'deployer',
        ],
        ...

2. Application File Permissions

Deployer uses rsync to deploy local source project to remote without --no-perms, which means that the source files' permission would keep on remote, but the files' owner would re-generate by remote user including root with --no-owner --no-group.

On the remote user, you could set the user's default groud ID to www-data in /etc/passwd, which the local user generates 664/775 mod files to deploy for remote www-data access.

For local user, umask 002 could be set in ~/.bashrc or global. Note that the permission need to apply for source files such as init from Git clone.

CI/CD

Webhook

Deployer provides webhook feature for triggering project deployment by any webhook service such as Gitlab.

To use webhook, you need add webhook setting into the projects you needed in config.inc.php:

return [
    'project' => [
        // ...
        'webhook' => [
            'enabled' => true,
            'provider' => 'gitlab',
            'project' => 'yidas/deployer-php-cli',
            'token' => 'da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709',
            'branch' => 'release',
            'log' => '/tmp/deployer-webhook-project.log'
        ],
    ],
];

Key	Type	Description
enabled	bool	Enable Webhook or not
provider	string	Webhook provider such as `gitlab`
project	string	Provider's project name likes `username/project`
token	string	Webhook secret token
branch	string	Listening branch for push event
log	bool\|string	Enabled log and specify the log file

PHP Web Setting

Deployer need a user to excute deployment, and the user is usually not the PHP web user.

For PHP-FPM, you could add a new PHP pool socket with the current user setting for the webhook site, for example /etc/php/fpm/pool.d/deployer.conf:

[deployer]

user = deployer
group = www-data

listen = /run/php/php7.0-fpm_deployer.sock

Then give the new socket to the webhook server setting, for Nginx eaxmple /etc/nginx/site-enabled/webhook:

server_name webhook.your.com;
root /srv/deployer/deployer-php-cli/webhook;

location ~ \.php$ {                                     
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;                  
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;    
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm_deployer.sock;
}

After a successful webhook, Deployer would prepare to process while responding the status and the result url for checking the deployment result.

Note: The PATH environment variable between Shell and PHP should be set to the same to prevent any unexpected problems.

Gitlab

Prividor key: gitlab

According to above Nginx website setting, the webhook URL could be https://webhook.your.com/gitlab. After setting config.inc.php and setting up scecret token, you could give a push event to go!

Note: Default setting is listen release branch's push event to trigger.

To browse the web page for result log report, enter the same webhook URL with log and token parameters to access. For example: https://webhook.your.com/gitlab?log={project-name}&token={project-token}

ADDITIONS

Rsync without Password:

You can put your local user's SSH public key to destination server user for authorization.

.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys

Save Binary Encode File:

While excuting script, if you get the error like Exception: Zend Extension ./deployer does not exist, you may save the script file with binary encode, which could done by using vim:

:set ff=unix

Yii2 Deployment

For yii2-app-advanced, you need to enable Composer and set yii2 init command in config.inc.php:

'composer' => [                     
    'enabled' => true,          
],                                  
'commands' => [
    'before' => [
        'yii2 init prod' => './init --env=Production --overwrite=All',
    ],
],

Minify/Uglify by Gulp

1. Install NPM, for Debian/Ubuntu:

apt-get install npm

2. Install Gulp by NPM

npm install -g gulp

3. Create Gulp Project

cd /srv/tools/minify-project
npm init
npm install gulp --save-dev
touch gulpfile.js

4. Set Gulp with packages

Package: gulp-uglify

$ npm install gulp-uglify --save-dev
$ npm install pump --save-dev

gulpfile.js:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var pump = require('pump');
var assetPath = '/srv/your.project.com/assets/js';

gulp.task('compress', function (callback) {
  pump([
        gulp.src(assetPath+'/**/*.js'),
        uglify(),
        gulp.dest(assetPath)
    ],
    callback
  );
});

5. Set Gulp Process into Deployer

'source' => '/srv/project',
'commands' => [                                                    
    'before' => [                                                  
        'Minify inner JS' => [                                     
            'command' => 'cd /srv/tools/minify-project; gulp compress',                                                 
        ],                                                          
    ],                                                             
],

Files

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