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First time I read about piku. I have no idea why, but the feeling of `git push` to initiate a deployment like piku does always felt magical to me. There's nothi

by p-o 2y ago

First time I read about piku. I have no idea why, but the feeling of `git push` to initiate a deployment like piku does always felt magical to me. There's nothing simpler than that. This is timely for me as well as I just open sourced (yesterday!) a project that is in the same space, but for Kubernetes (https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer). All of this to say, congrats! It looks great.

CaptainOfCoit 2y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how does sequencer use git to do deploys, if it's similar to Heroku/dokku/piku? Seems like you're dealing with kubernetes templates and kubectl rather than `git push` to deploy, which would put the project is a completely difference space.
myaccountonhn 2y ago
It works like magic, but it's also extremely simple to DIY if you wanna learn. If you set up a server, you can create a git repo by just doing `git init --bare`, add the setting `git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead`. After that you can use git hooks (more specifically push-to-checkout hook), to receive uploads, compile and launch. The hook will just be a simple shell script, the most basic version could be a variant of `compile && install && systemctl restart service`. From there you'll be able to copy the repo locally and pushing your changes will now trigger the hook you've setup. git clone root@yourserver.com:/path/to/git/folder
- rcarmo 2y ago
  You just described Piku, except that it’s a Python script that also sets up nginx and a process supervisor for your code :)
  - myaccountonhn 2y ago
    Yeah I love the simplicity of Piku, being able to actually understand what is happening behind the scenes is a great quality. :)
- tasuki 2y ago
  I've been doing almost exactly this. Have set up Ansible to automate it. Why would I want to use Piku? Would it give me some benefits I currently don't have?
  - gasparto 2y ago
    I guess the benefit of piku comes with the ease of use for developers who don't know lots about system administration/infrastructure. Spinning up a server and installing a repo on it is easy. Depends on your use case and on what you know/have. I prefer ansible or jenkins+scp-build-to-server+run-deploy.script I added it to my tools list in case i need sth quick'n working for a small team/to recommend when there's no ansible/sysadmin knowledge available. (I haven't looked into piku but i guess you'll hit its limitation once you have more complex deployment schemes, privilege/access management, ...)

by p-o 2y ago

CaptainOfCoit 2y ago

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how does sequencer use git to do deploys, if it's similar to Heroku/dokku/piku? Seems like you're dealing with kubernetes templates and kubectl rather than `git push` to deploy, which would put the project is a completely difference space.

myaccountonhn 2y ago

It works like magic, but it's also extremely simple to DIY if you wanna learn. If you set up a server, you can create a git repo by just doing `git init --bare`, add the setting `git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead`. After that you can use git hooks (more specifically push-to-checkout hook), to receive uploads, compile and launch. The hook will just be a simple shell script, the most basic version could be a variant of `compile && install && systemctl restart service`. From there you'll be able to copy the repo locally and pushing your changes will now trigger the hook you've setup. git clone root@yourserver.com:/path/to/git/folder

rcarmo 2y ago
You just described Piku, except that it’s a Python script that also sets up nginx and a process supervisor for your code :)
- myaccountonhn 2y ago
  Yeah I love the simplicity of Piku, being able to actually understand what is happening behind the scenes is a great quality. :)
tasuki 2y ago
I've been doing almost exactly this. Have set up Ansible to automate it. Why would I want to use Piku? Would it give me some benefits I currently don't have?
- gasparto 2y ago
  I guess the benefit of piku comes with the ease of use for developers who don't know lots about system administration/infrastructure. Spinning up a server and installing a repo on it is easy. Depends on your use case and on what you know/have. I prefer ansible or jenkins+scp-build-to-server+run-deploy.script I added it to my tools list in case i need sth quick'n working for a small team/to recommend when there's no ansible/sysadmin knowledge available. (I haven't looked into piku but i guess you'll hit its limitation once you have more complex deployment schemes, privilege/access management, ...)