Deploying a project

When it's time do deploy,

Deploy Key

On your production (and acceptence) environment, you should never have to commit anything to the git repository. The only thing you'll do is pull from the repo. If possible, you should set up just a 'deploy key' for your git repo. This will allow the server environment to read from the repo, but not to write back to it.

To do this, you'll need to create a private / public key pair, and add the public key as a deploy key to either Gitlab or Github.

Check for a key

First, check if your hosting environment already has a key pair set up: ls -als ~/.ssh/. If any files like id_rsa.pub or github_rsa.pub show up, you're set. Make sure you want to have an RSA key, and not an old fashioned DSA key.

Create a key

Make a key, if you don't yet have one. Use the command ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096, and press enter a few times, accepting the default values.

Ideally, you'll set up two identical environments on the server. This way you can have an "Acceptence" and a "Production" environment. In this case you'll deploy to ACC first, and (have the client) verify nothing has broken. It that goes well, only then run the deploy on production. Doing this will reduce the chance of breaking websites and downtime.

Run:

./boltflow.sh --dry-run

If this doesn't produce any errors, run the deploy for real:

./boltflow.sh