I am getting ready to deploy to a true production environment. When I say true I mean that my current production environment will now be staging because there is other crap on the server and I am creating a new larger slice for what will actually be my production machine.
The capistrano-ext gem has made separating the deploy recipes quite easy. However, one issue I run into is getting my code from one slice to another. I have a git repo set up on my staging slice that I will be using for production. The flow will be:
Develop locally Test locally Push from local to stage Test on stage Push from stage to production ...
Therefore I obviously need a way to establish a secure connection between staging and production. When deploying to production, I get a "Permission denied (publickey)." error because this is not set up. How can I establish this connection? Do I need to generate keys on my production server and put the public on my staging? How do I know what user on my production server is trying to connect to my staging server?
Branches and capistrano multistage are your friends.
To solve the production not having access to the git repo issue, try…
set :deploy_via, :copy
…this deploys by checking out locally, and pushing a tar ball.