vlad version 1.2.0 has been released!

Vlad the Deployer is pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy. Much like Capistrano, but with 1/10th the complexity. Vlad integrates seamlessly with Rake, and uses familiar and standard tools like ssh and rsync.

Impale your application on the heartless spike of the Deployer.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• Full deployment automation stack.
• Turnkey deployment for mongrel+apache+svn.
• Supports single server deployment with just 3 variables defined.
• Built on rake. Easy. Engine is small.
• Very few dependencies. All simple.
• Uses ssh with your ssh settings already in place.
• Uses rsync for efficient transfers.
• Run remote commands on one or more servers.
• Mix and match local and remote tasks.
• Compatible with all of your tab completion shell script rake-tastic goodness.
• Ships with tests that actually pass in 0.028 seconds!
• Does NOT support Windows right now (we think). Coming soon in 1.2.

Changes:

1.1.1 / 2008-01-14

• 5 major enhancements:

  • Support for Rake 0.8. Should still work for Rake 0.7.
  • Added git support (contributed by Garry Dolley).
  • Reviewed for accuracy by Evan Phoenix.
  • Added lighttpd.rb
  • Added automatic client setup for perforce.
  • Added mercurial SCM support patch. Closes ticket 13475.

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added #put method that wraps up Tempfile/rsync pattern.
  • Added automatic p4 client setup for perforce.
  • Added vladdemo.sh
  • Moved everything over to put.
  • Moved generic app setup to core from mongrel.
  • Parameterized 'head' into 'revision' variable (with head as default).

• 1 bug fix

  • Fixed cleanup to actually properly clean up.

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