Mina alternatives
Mina is an extremely fast and feature-packed Deployer and server automation solution written in Rake. You can use it to build and execute scripts to handle app deployments on servers through SSH. The main advantage of using it is its high speed which makes it function in less time, and all of this is thanks to it being a deploy bash script generator.
It is capable of producing a whole procedure as a Bash script and executes it in the server remotely. You can compare it to similar programs such as Capistrano or Vlad, where all commands are executed individually on their own SSH sessions. Mina, on the other hand, only builds a single SSH session on each deployment, eliminating SSH connection overhead.
Another great feature is extensive customizability. The settings are saved in a Ruby file from where the individual can define tasks for queuing up commands for remote running over SSH. The deployer is built on Rake, and as such, the configuration files are Rake files. All of the new releases are built on a temp folder which is highly useful in cases when the deploy script fails, and at that moment, the build is removed, and everything is rolled back. Each deploy script is reliant on a lock file to only for one deploy at each time. Mina can run with anything, and this is due to it being developed with Rails projects in mind.
