Bifrost is a command line tool to aid with the deployment of code to AWS instances using the Fabric library. Currently in beta.

sudo pip install http://github.com/justcompile/bifrost

From the top level of your project repository, you can run the following

init

will generate a configuration file which bifrost will use when communicating with the servers. It will prompt the user for a number of questions to help build the file such as AWS EC2 tags, deployment directory etc.

• name: the name of the configuration file to generate [defaults: bifrost.cfg].

deploy

will initiate the deployment for the given project. By default it will deploy to all roles by calling the deploy task.

• -n/--name : specifies the name of configuration to use [defaults: bifrost.cfg].
• -t/--task : prints out a list of available tasks in the case where custom ones have been added
• task1 task2 ...: If you wish to manually override the task(s) to execute.

To generate the default configuration file:

# To generate the default configuration file
bifrost init

# To specify the name of the configuration file
bifrost init -n bifrost-staging.cfg

# To deploy to all roles from the `default` branch
bifrost deploy

# To deploy to all roles from a different branch:
bifrost deploy deploy:branch=feature/PROD_1234

# To deploy to a specific role from a different branch:
bifrost deploy deploy_web:branch=feature/PROD_1234

# To run a particular task:
bifrost deploy my_task:param1=1234

# To deploy to all roles and run a task:
bifrost deploy deploy:branch=feature/PROD_1234 my_other_task