Settings up deployments

For deployments we use Capistrano, which is exposed on the CLI by the cap command.

Configuring Capistrano

You'll need to set a few thing before we can do the first time server setup:

In config/deploy.rb:

• Set the application name (in kebab-casing)
• Set the repo_url

First time server setup

Initial server setup can be done via:

$ cap <environment> deploy:setup

This will create a few directories, install Composer and WP-CLI, and copy some files which need to be persistent between deploys (eg. files in de shared folder and an initial .env file).

Resolving issues

• Make sure your SSH key is forwarded
• Make sure your SSH key is added to your shell. Add this to your .bash_profile (or alternative) will ensure it is loaded every time: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa > /dev/null 2>&1

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See also:

• Prerequisites with instructions for Ruby and Bundler