Capistrano vs DeployBot

Capistrano vs DeployBot: What are the differences?

Developers describe Capistrano as "A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby". 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. On the other hand, DeployBot is detailed as "Instantly deploy from Github, Bitbucket, or Gitlab without complex scripts, commands or configs". DeployBot makes it simple to deploy your work anywhere. You can compile or process your code in a Docker container on our infrastructure, and we'll copy it to your servers once everything has been successfully built.

Capistrano and DeployBot are primarily classified as "Server Configuration and Automation" and "Continuous Deployment" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Capistrano are:

• Reliably deploy web application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set
• Automate audits of any number of machines (checking login logs, enumerating uptimes, and/or applying security patches)
• Script arbitrary workflows over SSH

On the other hand, DeployBot provides the following key features:

• Manually deploy with a click in the app, automatically deploy on each push, or use deploy tags in a commit [deploy:production].
• DeployBot gathers new and changed files from your repositories since the last deployment. You can even preview the changes first.
• Files are uploaded, SSH commands are executed and deployment hooks are triggered. Everything is logged for you.

"Automated deployment with several custom recipes" is the primary reason why developers consider Capistrano over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking DeployBot.

Capistrano is an open source tool with 11.1K GitHub stars and 1.71K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Capistrano's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Capistrano has a broader approval, being mentioned in 293 company stacks & 81 developers stacks; compared to DeployBot, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.