What is Deployer?
A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box
Deployer is a tool in the Continuous Deployment category of a tech stack.
Deployer is an open source tool with 10.6K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Deployer's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Deployer?
Companies
18 companies reportedly use Deployer in their tech stacks, including Evergreenteam stack, Nuxeo, and Radiotalk.
Developers
34 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Deployer.
Deployer Integrations
PHP, Slack, WordPress, CloudFlare, and Laravel are some of the popular tools that integrate with Deployer. Here's a list of all 18 tools that integrate with Deployer.
Pros of Deployer
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Deployer's Features
- Simple setup process and a minimal learning curve
- Ready to use recipes for most frameworks
- Parallel execution without extensions
- Something went wrong? Rollback to the previous release
- Agentless, it's just SSH
- Zero downtime deployments
Deployer Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Deployer?
Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy helps teams to manage releases, automate deployments, and operate applications with automated runbooks. It's free for small teams.
Capistrano
Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows.
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
phing
It is not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP 'task' classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework.
