DeployFox

Tracy Pearson did a presentation at Southwest Fox 2019 titled "VFP DevOps: Implementing an Automated Build for a Complex Release of a Vertical Market Application" that explains in detail the benefits of automating deployment.

Until recently, I used a Microsoft Excel document with a long list of tasks as a checklist for application deployment. These tasks were almost all manual. I've always wanted to automate deployment as much as possible, so I created DeployFox. DeployFox automates the steps required to deploy your applications by providing a customizable list of tasks: copy files, rename files, build a project into an EXE, digitally sign an EXE, run an Inno Setup script to create an installer, upload files to an FTP site, and so on. Now I mostly just open a DeployFox project and run it to deploy an application, saving me lots of time and making an error-free process.

Deploying an application consists of a set of tasks. In DeployFox, sets of tasks are called a project and are stored in a table located wherever you wish (usually a subdirectory of the folder for the application to deploy). DeployFox supports a lot of types of tasks, such as copying files, renaming files, uploading and downloading files, and so on.

Documentation

See the documentation for instructions on how to use DeployFox.

Helping with this project

See How to Contribute to DeployFox for details on how to help with this project.

Releases

See the change log for release information.