Does anyone know any good solutions for automated deployment to a remote server using SFTP? I am specifically trying to deploy an asp.net mvc website to mosso. I can do it manually every time using an SFTP client, but would much rather have an automated (and consistent) way to do this.
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I have written a pretty detailed blog post using TeamCity, and Web Deployment projects to automate build and deployment as a starter here:
I have then added to this to show FTP addition
http://www.diaryofaninja.com/blog/2010/09/21/continuous-integration-tip-1-ndash-ftp-deployment
A basic process flow is pretty simple:
- Using a teamcity build server i download from my SVN repo
- I build and deploy the site to a local folder on the build server
- I fire a command line FTP client that supports scripting called
- WinSCP using the MSBUILD Task EXEC (http://winscp.net/)
- Upload all my sites content
- Have [insert beverage] of choice
I then make sure that i only deploy the Trunk of my SVN repo, and develop and test everything in an branch before merging - this way only tested stuff gets deployed. Add Automated testing to your build cycle and you've got a match made in heaven.
Some great free tools to get going are:
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