Welcome to Part 1 of my Capistrano 3 tutorial series. This post covers installing Capistrano and getting to the point where we can create our first Capistrano deploy scripts.

This will be a techie and complex post as the subject matter is not trivial. I am assuming that you have basic familiarity with Linux and the command line. It will definitely be worth persevering through this tutorial series though as once complete your deployment process will be far easier. This is the hardest part of the tutorial series, it does get easier!

And with that...let's begin.

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

Part 1

What is Capistrano and why is it so good?

Part 2

Secure SSH key based Capistrano website deployment from Subversion for multi-developer teams

Part 3

Using Capistrano for deploying PHP and other none Rails based websites

Part 4

Combining Capistrano and Drush for deploying Drupal powered websites

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.