GitHub-aware website builder

Skynet builds and deploys web sites on your VPS or bare metal server. It is triggered by the post-receive hook.

1. Static. Copies the entire repository to the specified destination and then removes the destination .git folder
2. Jekyll. Run jekyll on your repository. Entirely controlled by site's _config.yml

• Install Skynet: $ gem install skynet-deploy
• Install basic config file: $ skynet config <first project name>
• edit config file to add your repositories
• Run builder by hand to ensure everything works: $ skynet build
• Add http://YOUR_SKYNET_SERVER/PROJECT_NAME as a Webhook Payload URL to your repository under Settings -> Webhooks. Choose application/json as the Content type.
• Start server: $ skynet server

• url Value passed from post-receive hook to verify that the deploy should happen
• type The builder type to invoke for this application
• Either branch and destination together or only branches must be specified

• key SSH private key file to be used to clone and pull from private repositories. Should be given as an absolute path
• repository The location to clone the repository from. This is usually inferred from url, but can be overridden here
• branch The branch to be deployed
• destination Absolute path to the deployed application
• branches For when multiple branches should be deployed to this machine (such as a production + staging strategy). branches is a hash with keys being the branch name and values being the destination

Add this to your .git/hooks/post-receive file to use Skynet with a git server other than GitHub.

read oldrev newrev refname

curl -d "payload={\"repository\":{\"url\":\"<<same path as in config.yml>>\"},\"before\":\"$oldrev\",\"after\":\"$newrev\",\"ref\":\"$refname\"}" http://YOUR_SKYNET_SERVER/PROJECT_NAME

The URL must be visible from the Skynet server, as it will pull a new copy of the repository from this server.

• Private repositories must explicitly set the repository key in the config to the ssh-compatible url. Previously this was optional for Github repos