capistrano/capistrano

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Capistrano is a remote server automation and deployment automation framework built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH. It provides a `cap` CLI tool that executes scripted deployment tasks across multiple servers in parallel, with conventions for releases, rollbacks, and multi-stage environments.

Use cases

• deploy a rails app to production servers over ssh
• automate deployments to multiple app servers in parallel
• run arbitrary remote commands across a fleet of servers
• set up staging and production deploy stages
• roll back a bad release to the previous version
• script server maintenance tasks like uptime checks or patching
• hook custom tasks into a deployment pipeline

When to choose

• you deploy web applications (Rails, PHP, Java, or any language) to SSH-accessible servers
• you want convention-based, repeatable multi-server deployments with rollbacks
• you prefer writing deployment steps as Rake tasks in Ruby
• you need multi-stage environments like qa, staging, and production

When to avoid

• you deploy exclusively to containerized or serverless platforms where CI/CD pipelines or orchestrators handle deployment
• you need full infrastructure provisioning rather than application deployment (consider Ansible or Terraform)
• your team does not use Ruby and you prefer a language-agnostic tool
• you need immutable machine images rather than in-place releases

Facets

framework · maturity stable

deployment workflow-automation cli developer-tools web-development developer-tools ruby cli cross-platform ssh rake deployment-automation remote-execution multi-server rollbacks rails devops automation linux macos

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