How to deploy private repository about heaven

[gogames]

@atmos Can you please help?

[willdurand]

Hi @gogames. Actually, you don't need to run git clone in your Fabric since it is Heaven's responsibility to checkout (a.k.a. clone) your repository. Heaven mainly does three things:

1. Listen to GitHub, waiting for deployment event
2. When it receives such an event, it clones the repository
3. Once cloned, it goes into this repository and applies the configured strategy (Fabric in your case)

So, what you should do in your deploy method is not to clone the repo, but the actual deployment process (like compiling assets, pushing the build to a server, etc.)

[gogames]

@willdurand Thank you!

How can I send the repository to remote server and then compile the project on that server? The point is I do not want to do compilation on Heaven and then push the executable file to remote server.

That would be perfect if I can have a sample fabfile.py file.

Thank you so much!

[willdurand]

I don't use Fabric anymore unfortunately. Yet, IMO Heaven's main use case is to create a build (or artifact or executable), hence it should do compilation.

What I would do in your case would be to:

1. git archive the current state of your repo (what Heaven cloned)
2. Push the archive to your remote server
3. Do compilation

Based on what you wrote here, it should work with no extra credentials, since Heaven knows how to git clone, and your Fabric should know how to ssh your remote server.

[gogames]

According to document of providers, heaven simply execute a command fab -R %{environment} %{task}:branch_name=%{ref} which means I do not have the chance to ask heaven to push the archive to remote server and do the rest.

Please correct me if I misunderstand the document.

[gogames]

The problem is simplified: how to push the archive to remote servers?.

Thanks @willdurand for help.

[willdurand]

Well, this is your job to write the fabfile, so you can put everything you want. Here is what might work:

def deploy(branch_name):
    local('git archive --format=tar --output=/tmp/archive.tar --prefix=dist/ %s' % branch_name)
    run('scp /tmp/archive.tar user@remove_server:~/') # see also `put()`, which might be better
    run('tar xf ~/archive.tar')

    with cd('~/dist/')
        run('compile')

[gogames]

Awesome it should work! Let me close the issue now. Thank you!