Let’s face it, if you’ve used Heroku, you love their easy deploy process - I know I do! But if you try to host a hobby project that requires access to the local filesystem, or in my case I want the site to be hosted on the naked domain without having to use DNSimple or another provider that has ALIAS records, then Heroku quickly becomes a problem.

So I’ve created this easy breazy process to git deploy your website

1. On the server, create a new repository in /var/git/ as the “code vault”:

   git init --bare /var/git/chrisjones.git

2. Create a new post-deploy hook file named post-update

   cd /var/git/chrisjones.git/hooks
cp post-update.sample post-update

3. Fill the file with this code for my Jekyll blog:

   #!/bin/sh
   echo
   echo "**** Pulling changes into Live [Production's post-update hook]"
   echo
   cd /srv/chrisjones.dev || exit
   unset GIT_DIR
   git pull production master
   
   echo 
   echo "bundle install"
   echo
   ~/.rbenv/shims/bundle install
   
   echo 
   echo "Compiling assets..."
   echo
   JEKYLL_ENV=production ~/.rbenv/shims/bundle exec jekyll build
   
   exec git-update-server-info
   

4. Now create the web directory

   mkdir /srv/chrisjones.dev

5. Setup directory to receive code:

   git init
git remote add production /var/git/chrisjones.git

6. Now on the local development machine add the repository to your git config:

   git remote add production webserver:/var/git/chrisjones.git

7. Now simply deploy!

   git push production master

Whenever you have an update, or I want to create a new post, I simply commit the code and deploy to production. Boom!

Tags: devops