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How To Use Capistrano to Automate Deployments

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By O.S. Tezer
Developer and author at DigitalOcean.
How To Use Capistrano to Automate Deployments

Introduction

Capistrano is a Ruby based remote server automation tool which can be easily used to automate mundane deployment and system management tasks. Using Capistrano, you can almost entirely automate all actions you would normally take to get your product live.

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In this DigitalOcean article, we will be taking a close look at Capistrano: a Ruby-based remote server automation tool which can be easily used to automate mundane deployment and system management tasks.

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In this tutorial, we are going create a rock-solid CentOS server to host Ruby-on-Rails applications using Nginx and Passenger. We will continue with learning how to automate the process of deployments—and updates—using the Ruby based automation tool Capistrano.

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