If you plan to use a deployment utility such as Capistrano, you need to create a deploy user account. The deploy user is a user account with valid rights and roles to deploy your application.

In this topic:

Capistrano

At a Glance

This topic describes how to set up a dedicated user account to handle the deployment tasks on your SmartMachine.

Before You Begin

This topic assumes that you plan to deploy multiple applications on a SmartMachine in the following way:

/home/ExampleWebApp-1/
/home/ExampleWebApp-2/

You need a copy of the public SSH key for each developer in your project who can deploy the application.

Creating the Deploy User

An easy way to deploy a single application is to use the jill account as the deploy user.

In Virtualmin, create a new user named deploy.
Log in to your SmartMachine and run the following command:
```
usermod -P "Service Management" deploy
```
This will grant the deploy user with Service Management rights, which allows use of several important SMF commands.
Add the public SSH key for each developer with deploy rights to /home/deploy/.ssh/authorized_keys

Examples

This section contains examples for different deployment systems.

Capistrano

To deploy new code have your developers SSH in and run these commands:

set :user, "deploy"
set :runner, "deploy"

task :restart_web_server, :roles => :web do
run "svcadm restart http"
end

Creating a Deploy User

Before You Begin

Creating the Deploy User

Examples

Capistrano