Super-small scripts for easy PlayFramework deployment

deploy.sh

#!/bin/bash

REMOTE=play@SERVER_IP
REMOTE_APP=/home/play/PROJECT_NAME/

sbt stage || exit 1;
rsync -va target/ $REMOTE:$REMOTE_APP/target;
ssh $REMOTE "cd $REMOTE_APP; ./stop.sh";
ssh $REMOTE "cd $REMOTE_APP; ./start.sh";

start.sh

nohup ./target/universal/stage/bin/rh -Dhttp.port=3000 -Dplay.evolutions.db.default.autoApply=true &
# You can provide all the -Dsettings you need to set for your application here

stop.sh

test -f RUNNING_PID && kill `cat RUNNING_PID` && sleep 5;
rm RUNNING_PID;

tips.md

How to use

• Put deploy.sh in the root of your (playframework) project
• edit deploy.sh and set up the ssh access (REMOTE) and the remote app directory (REMOTE_APP).
• On the server, create an empty directory at $REMOTE_APP and put start.sh and stop.sh in it.
• Optionally, edit the http port for convenience in ./start.sh
• run ./deploy.sh and enjoy your deployment loop

Benefits

• It does incremental upload (only upload what have change) with rsync.
• It uses sbt stage which compile the application locally on your machine so you only need java on your server.
• It kills the server before uploading and restarts it.
• It displays server log in your console at the end of the deploy.sh, you can Ctrl-C and it keep the server up.

Notes

• ssh authorized_keys is your friend.
• It uses nohup to keep the application running which is not perfect but works: Of-course there must be better tools, for maintaining play applications as UNIX daemons, this one was just fine for me :)

Now, Fork me if you want & DWTFYW