# Shopify/shipit-engine

Deployment coordination

Repository: https://github.com/Shopify/shipit-engine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/shipit-engine
Homepage: https://shopify.engineering/introducing-shipit
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-20T19:27:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4571, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1493, forks 153 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:52.805557+00:00)

## What it is
Shipit is a self-hosted Rails engine from Shopify that coordinates code deployments for GitHub repositories, letting teams push, lock, and roll back deploys through a web interface. It works with any deployable script and natively supports Capistrano, Heroku, and RubyGems, with checklists, CI checks, and audit trails at the point of deployment.

## Use cases
- coordinate frequent deployments across a large team
- roll back a bad deploy from a web UI
- lock deploys while maintenance is ongoing
- enforce pre-deploy checklists before shipping
- deploy GitHub repos to Heroku or via Capistrano
- keep an audit trail of which commits were deployed
- let developers deploy without sharing production credentials

## When to choose
- your team deploys GitHub-hosted apps many times a day and needs coordination
- you want a self-hosted deployment dashboard with locking and rollback
- you deploy via scripts and want a tool agnostic to the target stack
- you need deployment audit trails for debugging production issues

## When to avoid
- you need a full CI pipeline with build and test orchestration
- your projects are not hosted on GitHub
- you prefer a SaaS deployment tool rather than self-hosting Rails, Redis, and a database
- you need Kubernetes-native or GitOps-style deployments

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: deployment, workflow-automation, webhook, ci-cd, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, ruby
- tags: deployment-coordination, continuous-delivery, github-integration, rails-engine, rollback, deploy-locking, devops, automation, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- Shopify/shipit-engine (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.805557+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:25.937774+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Shopify/shipit-engine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.805557+00:00, sha aa7b386dc59e)
  - homepage: https://shopify.engineering/introducing-shipit (fetched 2026-08-29T11:38:57.120154+00:00, sha 653c949b0b7d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.