Basic Deploy Tool

A simple systemd program that runs a command on your server when calling an API

Install:

• Clone this project at /opt and run these commands from /opt/basic-deploy-tool:

    python3 -m virtualenv .venv
    . .venv/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt

Config Deploy tokens and commands:

• Create config.json file next to the main.py file. The content of the file should be as example-config.json file.
• In the deploy_token field Insert a token. you can run this command to generate tokens:

    import secrets
    secrets.token_urlsafe(50)

• In the shell_command field insert the commands that you want to run on calling the webhook. For example you may run:

    cd /opt/my-site/ && git reset --hard && git pull && .venv/bin/python manage.py migrate && systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl restart my_site.service

Config Systemd:

• run these commands:

    cd /etc/systemd/system/
    ln -s /opt/basic-deploy-tool/deploy_tool.service
    systemctl enable deploy_tool.service
    systemctl start deploy_tool.service

Config Nginx

• You should route the traffic of path /deploy-from-git to the port 8005 where the deploy-tool is running.
• Add the configuration below to config file of your Nginx. It is located in /etc/nginx/sites-available/.

    location /deploy-from-git {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8005;
    }
  

• If you want to change the path, modify Nginx configuration and main.py file.
• If you want to change the port, modify Nginx configuration and deploy_tool.service file then run this command: systemctl daemon-reload; systemctl restart deploy_tool.service;

Config GitHub Action

• In your repository go to settings > Secrets and variables > Actions and click on New repository secret then in the name section insert DEPLOY_TOKEN and in the secret section insert the token you have generated before.
• Create a new workflow in GitHub Action from this code:

    on:
      push:
        branches:
        - main
    
    jobs:
      deploy:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
        - name: Send Deploy Request
          id: deploy
          uses: fjogeleit/http-request-action@v1
          with:
            url: 'https://<YOUR-SITE-DOMAIN>/deploy-from-git'
            method: 'GET'
            timeout: 20000
            customHeaders: '{"Authorization": "${{ secrets.DEPLOY_TOKEN }}"}'
        - name: Log Deploy Response
          run: |
            echo "detail: ${{ fromJson(steps.deploy.outputs.response).detail }}"
            echo "stdout: ${{ fromJson(steps.deploy.outputs.response).stdout }}"
            echo "stderr: ${{ fromJson(steps.deploy.outputs.response).stderr }}"
        - name: Check deploy failure
          if: ${{ failure() || !fromJSON(steps.deploy.outputs.response).success}}
          run: exit 1

Congratulations

Now if you push on master the code automatically deployed on your server.