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marmoto
My childish brain pulled a full-Freudian with that name. Might want to capitalize the I maybe?
stevekemp
My first thought was related to the name too - it's an unfortunate collision with Brad Fitzpatricks' shipit:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/ShipIt/

baudehlo
It's clearly a port of Brad's ShipIt from Perl to JS
neoziro
I don't know Brad's Shipit, so it's not a port but it is possible that it's the same thing.
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neoziro
Shipit is an automation and deployment tool, git hook is just a hook on a git command. You can't run a command on 10 servers in parallel using git hook post-receive.
stephenr
technically, a hook shell script could start 10 background commands, or start 10 commands using GNU Parallel.

This obsession with using a single language for everything is ridiculous and needs to end.

ojanik
Why Javascript?
Kudos
> Shipit was built to be a Capistrano alternative for people who don't know ruby, or who experienced some issues with it. If you want to write tasks in JavaScript and enjoy the node ecosystem, Shipit is also for you.
roelvanhintum
Nice, i prefer node over ruby, so maybe i'll use this. For the same reason i prefer LESS over SASS (apart from the great performance improvement).
neoziro
For Less and Sass, it's not very annoying because you don't have to write a lot of ruby code. But writting a complete deployment script if you don't know ruby is very hard... I love to be able to use my favorite JS modules in my deploy script, that's why I wrote Shipit.
roelvanhintum
That is one solid point. Thanks for helping all of us out!
nailer
If you run `npm install -g sass` you'll get the native JS version of SASS.
roelvanhintum
Thanks, didn't know that. Right now i was using libsass for some projects. It compiles faster than the ruby sass.
joshcrowder
The problem is that native sass is not the same version as ruby sass its infuriating.
halfdan
Where is Ghost using this tool?
fredoliveira
I'd guess they use it on their hosted platform.
halfdan
Would be my guess too, but other than a single PR from one of the core devs I can't find any connection between the projects. Is there any source for this?
neoziro
They used in to deploy projects internally, same for Le Monde. Shipit is not designed to Shipit projects over a lot of servers. It's designed to Shipit small projects or even to ship code on hardware (like raspberry).
frik
Is ShipIt an Ansible replacement? The idea of Ansible is good, but I would like a JavaScript based tool and avoid Ruby. Edit: i meant Python
mateuszf
Ansible is written in Python.
treehau5
what about ruby makes you want to avoid it? strictly curious
frik
Sorry, I meant Python. I am familar with Algol syntax based languages and prefer C/C++/ObjectC/C#/Java/PHP/JS/Go/Rust/Lua/Basic/Pascal/Ada/Smalltalk/Scheme over Python/Ruby/Haskel.
dragonwriter
What does Algol syntax have to do with that? Several of the first set of languages you list are not Algol-based, while two of the last three are Algol-syntax-based.
pyre
You can do most of your Ansible work without needing to touch Python. I'm a Python programmer, and I've never needed to touch Python (other than running Ansible, which is a Python program) with respect to an Ansible setup.
neoziro
Shipit can be an Ansible replacement, but there is no command abstraction to Shipit. Shipit is designed to quickly deploy a project on a set of servers not to configure an entire server.
kh_hk
I am starting to see the light on all this tooling madness. It does not matter: languages and their ecosystems are powerful enough for any project to build their own tools. Projects are fond of their tools, so they give them fancy names and logos, and release them in hopes they are useful to somebody.
neoziro
When will you release a deployment tool in Haxe?
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jzig
How is this different from Grunt or Gulp? Is it used with or in place of? After reading the docs I'm not sure I see the difference or the value add.
[dead] neoziro
Shipit can run local and SSH commands easily on a group of servers, there is also a set of tasks ready for deployment.
nailer
It leverages 'orchestrate' (which is what gulp uses) to do deploys across a variety of hosts, keeping the old versions around should you need to switch back easily.
jzig
But why wouldn't I just use Gulp then?
nailer
gulp doesn't define groups of servers, or connect to them over encrypted sockets. This does.

FYI the authors (which I'm not) seem to be gulp fans too, and want to leverage as much as they can.

rizalp
What's the difference between build tool, like gulp and deployment tool like Shipit?
neoziro
Shipit can run local and SSH commands easily on a group of servers, there is also a set of tasks ready for deployment.
s_kilk
So it's like a javascript version of fabric?
pstadler
Glad to see some more effort going into deployment tooling. I think the main goal of reinventing such tools in different languages is to get rid of the need of having dependencies outside of the current project's platform, which makes sense, for me at least.

Shameless plug: I'm the author of Flightplan[1], a library which provides a simple, yet powerful interface to execute sequences of shell commands on local and remote host(s).

[1] https://github.com/pstadler/flightplan

Dasuchin
I'm a huge fan of Flightplan. I used it extensively at a past job and added it into our default stack. Every site we worked with (60+ at the time I left) was using Flightplan for deployment.
astrojams
It would be cool to see a tutorial on configuring Shipit to do Ghost deployments.