Rocketeer is an alternative to Capistrano and Chef for deploying PHP applications. It is easy to set up deployment environments using Rocketeer, which is written in PHP 5.4+ and supports plugins for services like Campfire, Slack, and HipChat. To use Rocketeer, run commands like "rocketeer ignite" to configure deployment targets, repositories, credentials and more. It then deploys code by putting the latest version of the repository on the server.

1. Rocketeer – Deploying with PHP
An alternative to capistrano/chef
By: Joshua Copeland
@PsyCodeDotOrg

2. What is Rocketeer?
• Was built primarily for the laravel framework
• Easy to setup deployment environments
• Made with PHP and is v2 is in PHP 5.4+
• Older V1 killed a server of mine, no clue
• V1.2.2 is old but uses PHP 5.3
• When it works, it is wonderful
• Config files are easy to read and modify

3. Installation
• Curl
http://rocketeer.autopergamene.eu/versions/
rocketeer.phar > /usr/local/bin/rocketeer &&
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/rocketeer

4. Usage
• $ php rocketeer
• check Check if the server is ready to receive the application
• cleanup Clean up old releases from the server
• current Display what the current release is
• deploy Deploys the website
• flush Flushes Rocketeer's cache of credentials
• help Displays help for a command
• ignite Creates Rocketeer's configuration
• list Lists commands
• rollback Rollback to the previous release, or to a specific one
• setup Set up the remote server for deployment
• strategies Lists the available options for each strategy
• teardown Remove the remote applications and existing caches
• test Run the tests on the server and displays the output
• update Update the remote server without doing a new release

5. Available plugins and integrations
• Campfire
• Slack
• HipChat
• Wordpress

6. How it works
• Put your deploy target information and
repository of code you want to deploy when
asked which creates a .rocketeer directory in your
project root and your home directory.
• Configs for project can be committed.
• Add hooks into events to do custom tasks.
• If both servers don’t have PHP 5.4+ then Upgrade
them. Otherwise Rocketeer becomes useless.
• Keep configs private if password or ssh key is kept
in the projects version control system.

7. Add via Composer
• Add to composer.json
– "anahkiasen/rocketeer": "2.0.*"

8. bin/rocketeer ignite
No connections have been set, please create one:
(production)dev
No host is set for [dev], please provide one: yourhost.com
No username is set for [dev], please provide one:username
No password or SSH key is set for [dev], which would you use?
(key) [key/password]password
No password is set for [dev], please provide one:
No repository is set for [repository], please provide
one:https://bitbucket.org/your/repo
No username is set for [repository], please provide one:user
No password is set for [repository], please provide one: