Travis

Engine Yard Deployment

This page documents deployments using the dpl v2. Please see our blog post for details. You can check previous dpl v1 documentation here.

Travis CI can automatically deploy your Engine Yard application after a successful build.

For a minimal configuration, add the following to your .travis.yml:

deploy:
  provider: engineyard
  api_key: <encrypted api_key>
  edge: true # opt in to dpl v2

Alternatively, you can use email and password:

deploy:
  provider: engineyard
  email: <email>
  password: <encrypted password>

The Engine Yard API token can be obtained here.

Status #

Support for deployments to Engineyard is in alpha. Please see Maturity Levels for details.

Known options #

Use the following options to further configure the deployment. Either api_key or email and password are required.

api_key Engine Yard API key — secret, type: string, note: can be obtained at https://cloud.engineyard.com/cli
email Engine Yard account email — type: string
password Engine Yard password — secret, type: string
app Engine Yard application name — type: string, default: repo name
env Engine Yard application environment — type: string, alias: environment
migrate Engine Yard migration commands — type: string
account Engine Yard account name — type: string

Shared options #

cleanup Clean up build artifacts from the Git working directory before the deployment — type: boolean
run Commands to execute after the deployment finished successfully — type: string or array of strings

Environment variables #

All options can be given as environment variables if prefixed with ENGINEYARD_ or EY_.

For example, api_key can be given as

  • ENGINEYARD_API_KEY=<api_key> or
  • EY_API_KEY=<api_key>

Securing secrets #

Secret option values should be given as either encrypted strings in your build configuration (.travis.yml file) or environment variables in your repository settings.

Environment variables can be set on the settings page of your repository, or using travis env set:

travis env set ENGINEYARD_API_KEY <api_key>

In order to encrypt option values when adding them to your .travis.yml file use travis encrypt:

travis encrypt <api_key>

Or use --add to directly add it to your .travis.yml file. Note that this command has to be run in your repository’s root directory:

travis encrypt --add deploy.api_key <api_key>

Application or Environment to deploy #

By default, the application name will be inferred from your repository name.

You can explicitly set the name via the app option:

deploy:
  provider: engineyard
  # ⋮
  app: <app-name>

Deploy branches to different apps or environments #

In order to choose apps or environments based on the current branch use separate deploy configurations:

deploy:
  - provider: engineyard
    # ⋮
    env: production
    on:
      branch: master
  - provider: engineyard
    # ⋮
    env: staging
    on:
      branch: staging

Or using YAML references:

deploy:
  - &deploy
    provider: engineyard
    # ⋮
    env: production
    on:
      branch: master
  - <<: *deploy
    env: staging
    on:
      branch: staging

Run migrations #

You can trigger migrations by using the migrate option:

deploy:
  provider: engineyard
  # ⋮
  migrate: rake db:migrate

Pull Requests #

Note that pull request builds skip the deployment step altogether.

See also #