drupaldeploy

A Drupal deployment tool using git and ssh

Installation

npm install -g drupaldeploy

Getting started

Init

Creates a config.json and settings.php.

drupaldeploy init

Example config.json:

{
  // Server authentication info.
  "servers": [
    {
      "host": "hostname",
      "username": "root"
    }
  ],

  // The repository SSH clone url of your project.
  "repository": "[email protected]:studiointeract/drupal-git-deploy.git",

  // The branch you want to deploy.
  "branch": "master",

  // Location of web root in the repository.
  "web": "web",

  // Virtual Host DocumentRoot on the server.
  "documentRoot": "~/public_html",

  // Location of repository and files on the server (you need write permission).
  "installLocation": "/home/root",

  // Location of your Drupal settings
  "settings": "./settings.php",

  // Group for the user running Apache on the server.
  "group": "www-data"
}

Setup

Setup the server with your configuration and install git.

drupaldeploy setup

Deploy

Deploy your Drupal project using git pull and ssh.

drupaldeploy deploy

Notice! You need to setup ssh-agent (see below) for this to work, and have permissions to pull from your repository using your own ssh key.

SSH keys with passphrase (or ssh-agent support)

This only tested with Mac/Linux/Windows 10

With the help of ssh-agent, drupaldeploy can use SSH keys encrypted with a passphrase.

Here's the process:

• First remove your pem field from the config.json. So, your config.json only has the username and host only.
• Then start a ssh agent with eval $(ssh-agent) or eval `ssh-agent.exe` on Windows 10.
• Then add your ssh key with ssh-add <path-to-key>, i.e. ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.
• Then you'll asked to enter the passphrase to the key if you're using one.
• After that simply invoke drupaldeploy commands and they'll just work
• Once you've deployed your app kill the ssh agent with ssh-agent -k