Hapistrano
Hapistrano is a deployment library for Haskell applications similar to
Ruby’s Capistrano.
Purpose
We created Hapistrano because:
- Deploys should be simple, but as close to atomic as possible (eg,
they shouldn’t require much application downtime).
- Rollback should be trivial to achieve to bring the application back
to the last-deployed state.
- Deploys shouldn’t fail because of dependency problems.
How it Works
Hapistrano (like Capistrano for Ruby) deploys applications to a new
directory marked with a timestamp on the remote host. It creates this
new directory quickly by placing a git repository for caching purposes
on the remote server.
When the build process completes, it switches a symlink to the current
release directory, and optionally restarts the web server.
By default, Hapistrano keeps the last five releases on the target host
filesystem and deletes previous releases to avoid filling up the disk.
Usage
Hapistrano 0.3.0.0 looks for a configuration file called hap.yaml
that
typically looks like this:
deploy_path: '/var/projects/my-project'
host: myserver.com
port: 2222
repo: 'https://github.com/stackbuilders/hapistrano.git'
revision: origin/master
build_script:
- stack setup
- stack build
restart_command: systemd restart my-app-service
The following parameters are required:
deploy_path
— the root of the deploy target on the remote host.
repo
— the origin repository.
revision
— the SHA1 or branch to deploy. If a branch, you will need to
specify it as origin/branch_name
due to the way that the cache repo is
configured.
The following parameters are optional:
host
— the target host, if missing, localhost
will be assumed (which
is useful for testing and playing with hap
locally).
port
— SSH port number to use. If missing, 22 will be used.
build_script
— instructions how to build the application in the form of
shell commands.
restart_command
— if you need to restart a remote web server after a
successful rollback, specify the command that you use in this variable. It
will be run after both deploy and rollback.
After creating a configuration file as above, deploying is as simple as:
$ hap deploy
Rollback is also trivial:
$ hap rollback # to rollback to previous successful deploy
$ hap rollback -n 2 # go two deploys back in time, etc.
What to do when compiling on server is not viable
Sometimes the target machine (server) is not capable of compiling your
application because e.g. it has not enough memory and GHC exhausts it all.
You can copy pre-compiled files from local machine or CI server using
copy_files
and copy_dirs
parameters:
copy_files:
- src: '/home/stackbuilders/my-file.txt'
dest: 'my-file.txt'
copy_dirs:
- src: .stack-work
dest: .stack-work
src
maybe absolute or relative, it’s path to file or directory on local
machine, dest
may only be relative (it’s expanded relatively to cloned
repo) and specifies where to put the files/directories on target machine.
Directories and files with clashing names will be overwritten. Directories
are copied recursively.
License
MIT, see the LICENSE file.
Contributing
Pull requests for modifications to this program are welcome. Fork and
open a PR. Feel free to email me if
you have questions about what may be accepted before working on a PR.
If you’re looking for a place to start, you may want to check the
open issue.