Poll: What do you use for deploying code?

I have been using http://beanstalkapp.com/ to do automated deployments. Basically it is Github + some nicer deployment features and a corporate repo focus. (Private by default, easy to add / remove / manage account access when adding or removing employees.)

I have experimented with EC2 Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks. Both are horrible, and I do not recommend them. The documentation is incredibly obscure, with gaping holes for even basic use cases and I found the deployments themselves to be slow to complete, and unreliable, frequently having issues that were extremely hard to diagnose because of hard to access logs and cryptic error messages.

Git is by far the best deployment system in my opinion, especially if you can automate the code to get each server instance to automatically pull when needed.

But for beginners Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) is the absolute best. It is dead simple to set up a Git repo on the service, and then Beanstalk's servers will automatically deploy via SFTP to servers (or even directly to Amazon S3 for static content, even invalidating CloudFront caches), and you instantly have a secure deployment mechanism out of the box with no fiddling required.

With Node.js code if you are running your server through Forever you can easily configure it to watch the code directory for changes and restart the server when needed. End to end setup is extremely quick, and it is incredibly reliable.

I've actually spent the last 14 hours learning to deploy to ec2 using rubber. It's definitely powerful, and the railscast helps, but I haven't found much in the way of help for doing anything beyond deploying basic apps (for example, working on setting up resque workers right now...)

Before 2 days ago I used Heroku for everything.

PS. Rails.

We don't deploy every 2 secs, and botching something because you tried to automate it too much costs a lot more than a few minutes of my time.

Call this a vote for Ansible.