What is Shipit?
Shipit is an automation engine and a deployment tool written for node / iojs. Shipit was built to be a Capistrano alternative for people who don't know ruby, or who experienced some issues with it. If you want to write tasks in JavaScript and enjoy the node ecosystem, Shipit is also for you.
Shipit is a tool in the Server Configuration and Automation category of a tech stack.
Shipit is an open source tool with 5.3K GitHub stars and 230 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Shipit's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Shipit?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use Shipit in their tech stacks, including Netbeast, Ghost, and 20Scoops.
Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Shipit.
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Shipit Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Shipit?
Capistrano
Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows.
ShipStation
ShipStation is a web-based software designed to help eCommerce retailers process, fulfill, and ship their orders from all the most popular marketplaces and shopping carts using all the top carriers.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Dotenv
It is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Storing configuration in the environment separate from code is based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology.
