Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.

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Post by LukeFitzpatrick » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 2:08 PM UTC

Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.
deploybot.com

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Post by vs2 » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

I have used deploybot for over a year, great engineering. My favourite deploy tool

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Post by avtar » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 7:01 PM UTC

Seems like a pretty neat service. To save others some time, they don't have a free tier, you can't host it yourself, and they use Docker for builds before deployments:

http://support.deploybot.com/article/1028-plans-and-pricing

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Post by gargarplex » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

avtar wrote: post #3

Seems like a pretty neat service. To save others some time, they don't have a free tier, you can't host it yourself, and they use Docker for builds before deployments: http://support.deploybot.com/article/1028-plans-and-pricing

Does one need to have Docker configured to use this? I haven't gotten around to learning Docker yet.

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Post by captn3m0 » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

avtar wrote: post #3

Seems like a pretty neat service. To save others some time, they don't have a free tier, you can't host it yourself, and they use Docker for builds before deployments: http://support.deploybot.com/article/1028-plans-and-pricing

Suggestion to all companies: please have a /pricing/ page.

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Post by avtar » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 7:33 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #5

avtar wrote: post #3

Seems like a pretty neat service. To save others some time, they don't have a free tier, you can't host it yourself, and they use Docker for builds before deployments: http://support.deploybot.com/article/1028-plans-and-pricing

Suggestion to all companies: please have a /pricing/ page.

Fair enough. They do list their prices but on their signup page https://signup.deploybot.com/signup/new

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Post by joshmn » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

Kudos to WildBit. They're undeniably great in all the ways.

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Post by sandstrom » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

Any suggestions on similar open-source tools?

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Post by vemv » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 9:18 PM UTC

There's a number of startups doing some variation of this.

What many don't seem aware of is that plain pull requests, in combination with CI, entirely kill the need for a deploy app/bot.

This is how I do it at my current company:

  * use plain git flow (master/develop, hotfixes, etc)
  * use additional explicit branches per deployment target (e.g. master-spain for http://myapp.es, master-mexico for http://myapp.mx).
  * Protect these branches using github/bitbucket 'protected branches'.
  * open a PR from master to master-spain for performing a deploy of said target, detailng nicely what is being deployed and why.
  * instruct CI to deploy my app on each build of master-spain. master and develop are never deployed.

This setup has the same benefits (and then some more) than competitors:

  * Explicit deployment authors, reasons, timestamps
  * Impossible to deploy red code
  * Impossible to deploy code not in master
  * Impossible to deploy concurrently to the same target

Hope it helps someone!

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Post by jszymborski » Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 9:36 PM UTC

How does this compare to something like Laravel Forge[0]? Is it just that Forge focuses on PHP?

[0] https://forge.laravel.com