Capistrano Configuration with Gitlab

capistrano.md

Capistrano Configuration

Configure Server

• configure deploy user

groupadd deployers
adduser deploy
usermod -a -G deployers deploy

• to give the deployers group the permissions, run the following and edit the /etc/sudoers file: visudo
• Add the following line to after the groups:

..
## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
%deployers      ALL=(ALL) ALL

..

• generate ssh-key for deploy user

su deploy
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048

• add new deploy key to gitlab on http://gitlabserver/admin/deploy_keys from new server cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• enable new deploy-key on gitlab project

• copy gitlab-runner key from gitlab-machine su gitlab-runner -c "cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"

• paste gitlab ssh-key to new server via deploy user vi ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

• change file mode chmod 700 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

• install git on new server yum -y install git

• change project installation folder group chgrp -hR deployers /var/www

• change project installation folder permission chmod 775 -R /var/www

• optional visudo add %deploy ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:/bin/chown, /bin/chmod

first create capistrano config file with cap install command on project root folder.