SSH Deployment for Grunt using ssh2.

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.4

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-ssh-deploy --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-ssh-deploy');

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named environments to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  environments: {
    environment: {
      // Environment specific options here
    }
  },
});

This plugin will connect to your remote host, add a directory to releases/ in your remote_path, and create a symlink to the latest release.

The symlink by default is current, you can change this by setting current_symlink.

By setting an environment, you can deploy each specific one with grunt ssh_deploy:environment or rolling back with grunt ssh_rollback:environment.

Type: String

Remote host to connect to.

Type: String

The username to connect as on the remote server.

Type: String

Password for the username on the remote server.

Type: string

Path to your private key privateKey: require('fs').readFileSync('/path/to/private/key')

Type: string

Set agent agent: process.env.SSH_AUTH_SOCK

Type: String Default value: '22'

Port to connect to on the remote server.

Type: String

Full path on the remote server where files will be deployed. No trailing slash needed.

Type: String

Path on your local for the files you want to be deployed to the remote server. No trailing slash needed.

Type: String Default value: 'current'

Path to directory to symlink with most recent release.

Type: String

Commands to run on the server before and after deploy directory is created and symlinked.

grunt.initConfig({
  // do not store credentials in the git repo, store them separately and read from a secret file
  secret: grunt.file.readJSON('secret.json'),
  environments: {
      staging: {
          options: {
              host: '<%= secret.staging.host %>',
              username: '<%= secret.staging.username %>',
              password: '<%= secret.staging.password %>',
              port: '<%= secret.staging.port %>',
              deploy_path: '/full/path',
              local_path: 'dist',
              current_symlink: 'current',
              debug: true
          }
      },
      production: {
          options: {
              host: '<%= secret.production.host %>',
              username: '<%= secret.production.username %>',
              password: '<%= secret.production.password %>',
              port: '<%= secret.production.port %>',
              deploy_path: '/full/path',
              local_path: 'dist',
              current_symlink: 'current'
          }
      }
  }
});

grunt.initConfig({
  environments: {
    production: {
      host: '123.45.67.89',
      username: 'root',
      password: 'password',
      deploy_path: '/sites/great_project',
      local_path: '.',
      before_deploy: 'cd /sites/great_project/releases/current && forever stopall',
      after_deploy: 'cd /sites/great_project/releases/current && npm install && forever start app.js'
    }
  },
});

• 2014/06/23 - v0.2.0 - Added rollback functionality.
• 2014/06/19 - v0.1.7 - Fixed symlink method to cd into deploy_path before setting symlink.
• 2014/05/04 - v0.1.5 - Changing symlink method to not use full path.
• 2014/05/04 - v0.1.0 - Initial release.