Capistrano Reviews & Product Details

Ability to create multiple environments like staging, and production as well as its ability to backup multiple releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There aren't anything I have disliked about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capistrano is simple, Ruby based, supports automated deployment with various custom settings.

I can use Capistrano as a gem in my Ruby on Rails application and with a generator command it generated Capfile and deploy.rb where we can write various useful scripts used for deployment.

Another best part is we can able to write post deployment script like update database migrations, bundled gems or even write rake tasks if there any.

One can able to set multiple environments like staging, productions, etc.

You can keep multiple backup of multiple releases the default is 5.

It always deploy from the source control repository.

Ability to touch tmp/restart.txt on deploy which trigger a passenger reload.

There is a feature to pass authentication on server before deployment.

There is a feature to rollback to previous deployment version.

You can SSH to many servers and perform bunch of actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Capistrano so I am using since 2013. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part about Capistrano is that it is easily scriptable and can be applied to multiple machines at the same time. This creates a user friendly program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately, for someone like myself, new to this type of system/software, it takes time to get used to the program with little to no help. Luckily, it does come with support for complex environments! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capistrano is a very helpful command manager for distributed systems and it is a good tool for managing deployments in each company. It is written in Ruby which is good for users who are just getting used to working because it is a simple and concise way to learn as well as delve into. The system itself is very powerful and deployment of machines can be done on multiple machines at the same time. This is so much better than pulling in code manually because the program does it for us, which makes the overall software very easy to learn and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The language of Ruby is not always known among everyone so if we want specific people to troubleshoot issues we can only refer to a select people. It could definitely be more adaptable in terms of languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part is the flexibility of deploying and rolling back which happens in a glimpse of seconds across multiple machines. Its so easy to configure and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, running in on very large number of nodes simultaneously slows down the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capistrano makes repeated manual deployments a breeze and secure. I used to RCP files for clients applications but it was slow, prone to failure and required knowledge of the files that needed to be synced vs. the files that should not be. Also, Capistrano works great with our Rails apps and the config coexists with the app code. Perfect! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I have had some trouble getting it configured initially. Usually it is related to a permissions issue on the remote server which is not Capistrano's fault. It would be nice if there was a server-side component that you could install so the client and server parts could help you inspect and resolve user or permissions issues like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like capistrano because it's written in ruby and ruby is a key language that I am familiar and comfortable with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think my main problem with capistrano is the support features that it lacks. The software is hosted mainly on a git repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capistrano is a great tool for mass server administration and is written in ruby and I like that it's a language I've worked with the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike how capistrano isn't a managed service and only on your own systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The easy way to use, the language, I like very much the multiserver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing at all to dislike. It do what you need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we set this solution up on the servers it was relatively quick and painless. We had several scripts created for deploying new software and at the time, Capistrano was a good fit for the IT organization we had contracted to do the work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost was high, where there are other options! When we moved from the outsourced IT organization we didn't have an expert who felt comfortable with how the deployment scripts had been set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.