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Capistrano 3 Tutorial Series - Using Cap v3 to deploy LAMP websites from Subversion on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS servers

Over the last few months I wrote an in depth tutorial series on using Capistrano. This covered:

Unfortunately about two months ago Capistrano version 3 was released which has made my tutorial somewhat redundant. You can't stand in the way of progress though so I've recreated the series for Capistrano 3.

The 'why is Capistrano so good' post from the Capistrano v2 series is still perfectly valid for Capistrano v3. In a nutshell:

  • Effortless one line deploys
  • Stress free one line roll-backs

What's not to like! For a fuller explanation feel free to skim read my introductory Capistrano v2 blog post.

As a result this will be a three part series:

Happy reading!