Question
How to setup a staging server that will then push to production server
- Posted on May 28, 2015
- DeploymentLAMP StackGitUbuntu
Asked by rhombusone
Hi there,
One area of my workflow — like many — that is weak, is how I go from local to production. At the moment it’s dangerously messy.
I build offline, then go straight to my production droplet, create the SQL database and import and create my git hooks which pull straight into the live directory. I am really interested in finding out about using another droplet as a staging server but have yet to find a tutorial for it on Digital Ocean.
Is this something anyone fancies writing up? Seems like a missing area in the tutorial area. I can’t get my head around how the workflow would go using a staging server that keeps things from getting cluttered if you’re dealing with multiple sites. Mapping sub domains to folders seems like over time it could get massively cluttered. Is there any other options out there?
Need some advice on this
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Following this tutorial by Justin you can setup a production server that uses git hooks for deployment based on commits to the
masterbranch.Repeating that process on another server (or the same one if you’re short on droplets) and changing the
post-receivehook to watch for commits to thestagingbranch instead ofmaster.Lastly I would add a remote such as:
Automating the push from
stagingtomasterwill depend greatly on your workflow, automated testing, code review and similar things specific to your repository / project.For small projects and applications I add my automated tests to the
post-receivehook, if all tests pass it will tell me in the response ofgit push staging <branch>so I can then merge to themasterbranch and push to production manually. Additionally, commits against thehotfixbranch on the staging server are automatically merged tomasterand pushed to production if all of the tests pass, if for any reason tests don’t pass on the production server it will revert back.+1
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