This is a small HTTP server written in python. It allows you to have a version of your project installed, that will be updated automatically on each Github or Gitlab push.

To set it up, do the following:

• Install python
• Copy the GitAutoDeploy.conf.json.example to GitAutoDeploy.conf.json. This file will be gitignored and can be environment specific.
• Enter the matching for your project(s) in the GitAutoDeploy.conf.json file
• Start the server by typing python GitAutoDeploy.py
• To run it as a daemon add --daemon-mode
• On the Github or Gitlab page go to a repository, then "Admin", "Service Hooks", "Post-Receive URLs" and add the url of your machine + port (e.g. http://example.com:8001).

You can even test the whole thing here, by clicking on the "Test Hook" button, whohoo!

• Copy file initfiles/debianLSBInitScripts/gitautodeploy to /etc/init.d/
• Make it executable: chmod 755 /etc/init.d/gitautodeploy
• Also you need to make GitAutoDeploy.py executable (if it isn't already): chmod 755 GitAutoDeploy.py
• This init script assumes that you have GitAutoDeploy.py in /opt/Gitlab_Auto_Deploy/GitAutoDeploy.py. If this is not the case, edit gitautodeploy init script and modify DAEMON and PWD.
• Now you need to add the correct symbolic link to your specific runlevel dir to get the script executed on each start up. On Debian_Sys-V just do update.rc.d gitautodeploy defaults

• TODO

When someone pushes changes into Github or Gitlab, it sends a json file to the service hook url. It contains information about the repository that was updated.

All it really does is match the repository urls to your local repository paths in the config file, move there and run "git pull".

Additionally it runs a deploy bash command that you can add to the config file optionally, and it also allows you to add two global deploy commands, one that would run at the beginning and one that would run at the end of the deploy. Make sure that you start the server as the user that is allowed to pull from the github or gitlab repository.