Generic PHP app deployment tools which are written in PHP

Analysis for TRIM Revamp

The top 3 options are: https://openhub.net/p/_compare?project_0=deployer-php&project_1=Phing&project_2=rocketeer-php

Phing

• https://www.phing.info
• Since Phing uses XML files: Plugin XMLUPDATE
  • Adding YAML support is a long term goal "Whether yaml support actually lands is a question of available time (and/or pull requests) 😊"
• Phing could also be used to replace Tiki's release script
• 4 million installs at https://packagist.org/packages/phing/phing
• Manual has 284 pages: https://www.phing.info/docs/master/hlpdf/manual.pdf
• https://www.michielrook.nl/2017/03/phing-development-update-6/

Deployer by Anton Medvedev

• https://deployer.org
• There are recipes for several web apps: https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/tree/master/recipe
• https://github.com/deployphp/deployer
  • https://github.com/ngmy/webloyer
    • https://github.com/ngmy/webloyer/blob/master/SCREENSHOTS.md
  • https://github.com/sourcebroker/deployer-extended
• 500 000 installs on https://packagist.org/packages/deployer/deployer

Analysis:

• Multi-stage
• Multi-host (including local)
• Uses YAML
• Based on Symfony Console
• Optional Webployer uses Bootststrap
• An example of how Typo3 console tasks can be handled by Deployer
• Reported to work on Windows, albeit more slowly
  • Does it work for Symlinks? (which are important for atomic upgrades)
• Subversion (SVN) support would need to be added
• Available as a self-updating Phar
• Has plans for a Vault feature

  
  

Rocketeer

• http://rocketeer.autopergamene.eu
  • https://github.com/rocketeers/rocketeer/issues/748
  • https://github.com/rocketeers/rocketeer/issues/472
  • Call for collaborators
  • https://github.com/rocketeers/satellite
• 250 000 installs on https://packagist.org/packages/anahkiasen/rocketeer

Magallanes

• It's at version 3, and old commits don't seem to appear in OpenHub. Old site: http://v1.magephp.com/
• http://magephp.com
• 170 000 installs on https://packagist.org/packages/andres-montanez/magallanes
• WIP: Added support for Phar building with Box2

Walle-Web

• https://github.com/meolu/walle-web
• Has a web interface
• Site mostly in Chinese
• Only 1 install on https://packagist.org/packages/meolu/walle-web

Deployer by Stephen Ball

• https://github.com/REBELinBLUE/deployer/wiki/Screenshots It has a web GUI
• Requires Redis and Node.js (in addition to PHP/MySQL)
• Only 115 installs on https://packagist.org/packages/rebelinblue/deployer

Idephix

• https://github.com/ideatosrl/Idephix
• 25 000 installs on https://packagist.org/packages/ideato/idephix

PHPloy

• https://github.com/banago/PHPloy
• 3500 installs on https://packagist.org/packages/banago/phploy

Altax

• 2700 installs at https://packagist.org/packages/kohkimakimoto/altax
• https://github.com/kohkimakimoto/altax

Automate

https://automatephp.github.io/automate/
Not found on Packagist?

Conveyor

https://github.com/webcreate/conveyor
200 installs on Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/webcreate/conveyor

Narrow feature set

Git-deploy-php

• https://github.com/BrunoDeBarros/git-deploy-php

ftp-deployment

• https://github.com/dg/ftp-deployment

Inactive projects

SlimJim

• https://github.com/jesalg/SlimJim

Pomander

• http://tamagokun.github.io/pomander
• Latest commit 1240911 on May 13, 2016

Related links

• Continuous Integration
• PHP interface for software version control systems
• Phar