Capistrano

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1. If your app is not too large you can do CI/CD perfectly fine from your laptop.

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Incident with Github.com”

2. I prefer deploying with Capistrano than with Elixir builds

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “Erlang/OTP 29.0”

3. Rollbacks become trivial should you need it.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “30 years of <br> tags”

4. Deploy with Capistrano (a fancy bash script)

   Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?”

5. Capistrano gets the job done

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “30 years of <br> tags”