SSH Deployment

[designermonkey]

Would you consider writing a script for deployment using SSH?

[scttnlsn]

Since you can push/pull Git repositories over SSH I'm not sure there's any advantage of using Danelion. Are you not able to install Git on the server?

[designermonkey]

It's more a security thing, but as we all know, some hosts don't allow us to install git.

I can see your point. It was just an idea :)

[scttnlsn]

Yeah, looks like Ruby's Net::SCP provides an interface very similar to Net::SFTP. Pull request? Otherwise, I can try implementing this when I have some time.

[designermonkey]

Sadly, I am not a Ruby dev.

[creativecoder]

Thanks for this excellent little gem. I have a number of smaller scale web dev clients who are on shared hosting and either don't have SSH access or don't have git in their hosting server. This is very helpful.

I would second the SSH key feature. It would be great if dandelion would use my ssh-agent and ssh config file to login to the server via SSH (when available) so I don't have to put passwords in plain text files. I do leave dandelion.yml out of version control, for this reason.

[creativecoder]

Just discovered that you can use SSH keys with dandelion and SFTP. You must manually add the key to your ssh agent from the command line: ssh-add ~/.ssh/mykey

Very nice!

[theDanielJLewis]

To refresh this topic, what are the actual steps I need to take to switch to SSH? What do I change in the .yml file?

[scttnlsn]

@DanielJLewis There's still no SSH adapter.

[creativecoder]

You can use an ssh key to connect via SFTP, instead of using a password in the configuration file (if the server supports connecting to SFTP with an SSH key).

[scttnlsn]

@creativecoder @DanielJLewis I'll update the docs w/ this info.

[scttnlsn]

I'm going to close this issue since I don't see any need to implement an SSH adapter. Please re-open if SFTP + SSH key is not sufficient.