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What is the Jity Deployment Service?

The Jity Deployment Service is a common Symfony2 application to deploy any kind of applications to remote or local systems.

It can be used as a standalone application or as a extension to phing. If it is used as an extension, all tasks will be available to given build files.

Features

Deployment Application

• Highly customizeable
• Semantic configuration, only specify essentials and skip default values

Configuration

• All paths will be identified and normalized by default
• All config values will be parsed for contatiner and runtime %parameters%
• An schemantic configuration can be dumped to list all default values and constains

Fetcher

• Fetch the source distribution from serveral sources
  • Use the local source
  • Use a Git repository
  • Use a Svn repository

Fixtures Loading

• Have a prebuild set of static files which will be needed for a certain environment? Just include these files to the fixtures collection and they will be copied over to the deployment archiv
• With this feature you can quickly manage multiple configuration files or any similar because the fixtures will overwrite the fetched files

Installer Compiler

• Partial/Hooks can be inserted for
  • Base, Pre-Base, Post-Base
  • Environment, Pre-Environment, Post-Environment,
  • Specific slaves
• Validate installer syntax
• Print builded installer script for debugging and visualization

Archiver

• Compressing algorithm for the package can be configured
  • gzip - fast processing, acceptable compression
  • bzip2 - acceptable processing, good compression
  • xz - acceptable processing, best compression

Package & Installer Deployment

• All relevant files will be copied in parallel to the slaves for the current environment to speed up the process

Package Installation

• All slaved will be installed in parallel to speed up the process
• If a slave got errors while processing they will be logged and displayed but they dont affect the installation of the other slaves

Usefull Links

• Documentation: http://docs.jity.de/deployment/
• API: http://api.jity.de/deployment/