Web Deployment OS or COTS (was RE: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git)

[Alex Dean]

On Dec 27, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Mike Ballon wrote:

> Greets,
> 
> I'm looking for either an opensource or commercial package for web deployment. In the past I have used both Replweb and WebMethods in the Windoz world, although now I'm looking at a LAMP environment. 
> 
> The reason I'm looking is because our web team does constant updates and deployments and I honestly can't keep up with everything else I have to do. I could give them access to production like they use to have, of course I really don't want that. I could also use svn/git with rsync (which we have done in the past) or simply manual write custom scripts for everything, although I really want a turnkey solution.
> 
> Ideally I'm looking for something that supports not only version control, but the standard dev, test, prod method with rollback. I'd like to setup the infrastructure and walk away, well for the most part anyway. Nice to have would be a web UI, although it's not required. Right now all I've been able to find is Rational Build Forge and I'm looking for opinions and experience from the PLUG.
> 
> -Mike

Capistrano is popular for deploying Rails projects, but there's no reason it couldn't be used with non-Rails code.  It includes all the features you're describing, including rollbacks, and integrates with either svn or git.  There would be a learning curve if you're not familiar with Ruby, but it's a great tool and (I think) worth the effort.

https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/2.x-Getting-Started

alex