deploy-module

Description

A shell script to automate deployment of predefined modules (e.g. configuration files for a service, or just any file structure you want to deploy on one or more machines). You can keep a central file-based repository of your configs for your different machines and easily submit changes to the remote targets The script expects a pattern file, which holds deployment details, as argument. To push files and for execution of post-deployment commands on the remote machine, ssh and rsync are utilized.

Modules

A module consists of a full path folder structure, holding the source files. The module root holds a single pattern file, containing a filelist, targets and the post-deployment commands. It's just a script snipplet, that is sourced by the deployment script. For details see the example pattern file ´template.deploy´

For example, if you want to create a module for an apache webserver, the module folder could look like this:

[module-apache]
├── apache2.deploy
└── etc 
    └── apache2
        ├── apache2.conf
        ├── conf-available  
        ├── conf-enabled  
        ├── envvars  
        ├── magic  
        ├── mods-available  
        ├── mods-enabled  
        ├── ports.conf  
        ├── sites-available  
        │   └── 000-default.conf  
        └── sites-enabled  
            └── 000-default.conf

After you finished editing your config, just simply deploy it by running ´deploy-module.sh <path/to/file/apache2.deploy´

ToDo

• Hardening: simple error handling
• feature: set additional rsync and ssh options via pattern file
• feature: add pre-commands
• feature: Placeholders, to deploy different versions on multiple machines.