Quick Start with Version Control and Continuous Delivery

This is a 5-minute guide on how to place the code under version control and automate its deployment.

Import an existing website to a new Buddy project

Working with Buddy is based on two things:

• The Git repository with the source code of the website
• The delivery automation pipelines

Create a new project and select your Git provider to attach the repository:

Git provider selection

Playing with the Git repository

Once the repo is synchronized, the code will appear under the Code tab. Here you can browse the contents of your repository, create and manage branches, view commit history and edit files in a handy code editor.

Code preview in the repository

Configuring delivery pipeline

Now we need to add a delivery pipeline. A pipeline is a set of actions performing tasks on your code – from building the application, to running tests, to deploying it to the server. In our case we'll stick only to the deployment.

Enter the name of your pipeline, select the branch from which you want to deploy, and set the trigger mode to On Push:

Pipeline configuration

The next step is adding the deployment action for your type of server. Here we'll use FTP, but you can use any other type, from SFTP (we strongly recommend it over FTP as a more secure solution!) to cloud services like DigitalOcean, AWS or Azure.

Deployment configuration

Now let's give the pipeline a try. Go to your repository and change something in the code, for instance in index/php. Buddy will automatically trigger your pipeline and update your website on the server:

As you can see, you don't have to select the files manually, upload them, enter login data, or complete any other time-consuming task. Another good news is that you can set up as many pipelines as you want, meaning you can have a separate pipeline for each development environment (development > stage > production), and things like integration tests and website monitoring.