Easiest Git Deploy Ever!

The following tutorial shows the easiest way I’ve found to deploy pretty much any application to another machine!

🔗Server Prerequisites:

☑ $ git pull the app from the server
☑ $ ssh user@server get into the server
☑ pm2 or apache2 or nginx … some kind of server is running

🔗Server Side

Create the following file in the home directory of the server… it’s just 3 lines.

$nano ~/update_server.sh

cd ~/nodeApp;
git pull;
pm2 restart app;

This assumes the node app is already running using pm2 and is named app in the pm2 process, but any other server can be restarted too

🔗Local Side

Once you’ve committed and pushed some changes to the git repository, you can can call this script using a command sent through ssh.

$ ssh -T root@yourserver ./update_server.sh

ssh -T lets you run a single command through the ssh tunnel, in this case we’re executing the script update_server.sh

That’s it! Your server pulls the latest changes and restarts!!

If you know of an easier solution please let me know in the comments.