[stefantalpalaru]

> The state of the art seems to be ”run git pull and pray”

No, the state of the art where I'm handling deployment is "run 'git push' to a test repo where a post-update hook runs a series of tests and if those tests pass it pushes to the production repo where a similar hook does any required additional operation".

[themartorana]

Git deployments work great if you're packing an image (AMI, Docker) using, say, Packer. But we only deploy "immutable" images, not code on to existing servers.