This, and the following entry, are the main focus of this tutorial. Here you will learn how to create a Capistrano project, recipe – for deploying your application code, run tests, stop and restart the NodeJS server; and maintain roles. The assumptions are that git, npm and NodeJS are already installed on target servers, and […]

Installing Jenkins on Debian is a trivial task – a package is available, through aptitude, and default configuration is sufficient. This tutorial does not cover advanced security topics. By default, port 8080 is open and no authentication required – this poses a major security risk; thus if you rely solely on the instructions below, you […]

Final component of the Continuous Integration and Deployment process using Capistrano and Jenkins, is …Jenkins. Jenkins is an open source Continuous Integration services tool, that allows users to define a set of tasks to be run either manually, or triggered by 3rd party applications. This page presents how to integrate Jenkins and Capistrano 3; in […]

This entry shows which steps to follow when installing Capistrano 3 on Debian. Root level access is required, on the same Jenkins machine used here. NOTE: Capistrano 3 requires Ruby >= 1.9. If Ruby 1.8 is installed, follow these steps to remove it, and install Ruby 1.9: Based on http://makandracards.com/makandra/1104-upgrade-from-ruby-1-8-7-to-ruby-1-9-2-on-ubuntu 1. Remove ruby1.8: apt-get remove […]