Deploydo
Dev tools
deployment tool
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.52.
Privacy: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Symlink-based deploys give zero downtime and fast rollback
From 1 comment
Thanks for asking this, it's a valid question. We differ from dploy.io in the following points: - we provide true line-by-line diffs between the remote server and the deployed…
_query on HN
Objections
Requires SSH access from a third party, which is a security risk
From 3 comments
The idea of these hosted deployment systems always scares me. Essentially you have no choice but to open SSH to the universe. This is far beyond best practices for at least a…
druiid on HNYes, I want to use a web interface like this, and the config management feature is something that I would find very useful. No, I'm not comfortable giving a third-party service…
nathan_f77 on HNThis is difficult for some setups, as it relies on an open SSH port. Our AWS instances are not publicly accessible, so this makes it hard.
iancarroll on HN
Does not handle migrations, restarts or complex config setup
From 2 comments
from the features page: > You can deploy nearly any programming language with our tool that works by just transferring the files Maybe I misunderstand something, but this sounds…
gingerlime on HNWeb UI vs SSH is hardly the problem. More often, it's setting the environment set up on the remote server that's a terrible pain, then you have to set up domains and ssl and all…
ksikka on HN
Stores production credentials on a third-party service
From 1 comment
I'd really like you to make a case for why I, as somebody who won't store production credentials in my code repo, should feel good storing them in yours. I run the a SaaS cron…
encoderer on HN
Requests
Self-hosted option
From 1 comment
Would be a nice tool if you could host it yourself though.
tdumitrescu on HN
Encrypt stored config and credentials
From 1 comment
Currently we are working on improving our security by encrypting user data like config files. Then we would store the password for decrypting these data on the client. We would…
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Questions
How is it different from dploy.io and Beanstalk
From 1 comment
I see. How are you different from these services?: http://dploy.io/ http://beanstalkapp.com/features/deployments I'm not trying to attack you or anything, just trying to…
ksikka on HN
Does it deploy compiled binaries
From 1 comment
There's a lot of explanations of source code deployments, but it never mentions compiled binaries. Is it capable deploying build outputs?
recursive on HN
Alternatives named
dploy.io
From 1 comment
I see. How are you different from these services?: http://dploy.io/ http://beanstalkapp.com/features/deployments I'm not trying to attack you or anything, just trying to…
ksikka on HN
Beanstalk
From 2 comments
I see. How are you different from these services?: http://dploy.io/ http://beanstalkapp.com/features/deployments I'm not trying to attack you or anything, just trying to…
ksikka on HNI'm comfortable with having a company I trust enough handling deployment. In order to trust them I have to see them do difficult things well and it probably needs to be more than…
benatkin on HN
Ansible
From 1 comment
Why not just use ansible?
matejkramny on HN
Laravel Forge
From 1 comment
The PHP Laravel framework have something similar with [Forge](https://forge.laravel.com/), but it is catered to the framework. It is almost like a PAAS As A Service.
hdra on HN