ClickDeploy

@fredrivett Thanks Fred. Good question. For a start, ClickDeploy is designed to be simple and do one thing well (deployments from GitHub). There are other, more technical and complex apps that allow you to do the same thing. However, none of them are as straightforward to use as ClickDeploy (I'm speaking from experience as I've used both Dploy and Envoyer in the past). Also ClickDeploy is cheaper (discounting Deploybot's free plan).

@gilbitron Thanks for the reply Gilbert! Would you say that ClickDeploy does deployments better than DeployBot? I've not used DeployBot yet, but intrigued how ClickDeploy is better in that regard.

@fredrivett I'm not sure if it does them better or not as that would depend on how you define "better". As far as I'm aware Deploybot has its own deployment system, whereas ClickDeploy uses SSH and Git (making it simple and fast).

@gilbitron Gotcha. Thanks for taking the time to clarify Gilbert.

@dylanjha Thanks for the feedback Dylan. A UI is not for everyone, but thats not the only feature of ClickDeploy. Simple pre/post deployment hooks and the ability to deploy config files (that aren't stored in the repo) are also useful features. Rollback functionality is an interesting idea. I'll add that to my list.

@gilbitron pre/post hooks and config files are nice features. Can a developer set all this up with click deploy, then use a CLI to trigger the deploy? It would be nice to have a CLI or API interface for developers that prefer that, and for integrating with continuous integration

@dylanjha At the moment we don't have any CLI integration but it is another good idea that I'll add to my list.