# Deployer

PHP deployment tool that runs deploy tasks on servers over SSH, with recipes for popular PHP frameworks and CMSs.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/deployer/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-19
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-19

## Record

### Links

- home: https://deployer.org
- repository: https://github.com/deployphp/deployer
- docs: https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/getting-started

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: deployphp (GitHub organization)
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: dev-tool
- hosting: not applicable
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.3
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: composer global require deployer/deployer

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 8
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-05-18

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 11115
- packagistDownloads: 29661128
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 479
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: 848377
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 912
- dependentPackages: 189

### Sources

- urls: https://deployer.org/ (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/getting-started (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainer: https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/blob/HEAD/LICENSE (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainerType: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer (read 2026-10-19)
- category: https://deployer.org/ (read 2026-10-19)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer (read 2026-10-19)
- runtime: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/deployer/deployer.json (read 2026-10-19)
- runtimeMin: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/deployer/deployer.json (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/installation (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/installation (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/installation (read 2026-10-19)
- runsAs: https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/installation (read 2026-10-19)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer (read 2026-10-19)
- licenseModel: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer (read 2026-10-19)
- currentMajor: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/deployer/deployer.json (read 2026-10-19)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer/releases/latest (read 2026-10-19)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer (read 2026-10-19)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/deployphp/deployer/contributors (read 2026-10-19)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/deployer/deployer.json (read 2026-10-19)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/deployer/deployer.json (read 2026-10-19)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/deployer%2Fdeployer (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/deployer%2Fdeployer (read 2026-10-25)
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/deployer/deployer/stats.json (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Deployer is a PHP command-line tool that a developer or a CI job runs to release code to servers over SSH. A `deploy.php` file sets the SSH user, the deploy path and the tasks, and the default layout keeps each release in its own folder with a `current` symlink. Recipes add tasks for frameworks and CMSs, and a provision recipe installs the server stack on Ubuntu.

## Worth knowing

Deployer runs on the machine that starts the deployment, so the live server needs no Deployer process. Provisioning needs root login with an SSH key, which recent Ubuntu images disable by default, according to the [getting started guide](https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/getting-started).

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