Samson CLI

Command line utility to manage deploys in Zendesk's Samson

Requirements

git and Node.js >=4 with npm.

How to install

Just install the samson-cli globally.

npm install -g samson-cli

Configuration

You should create a samsonrc.json file in each of your project directories. samson will look for it when you run the tool. The file should have this shape:

{
  "url": "http://my-samson-url.com",
  "project": "myProjectName",
  "auth": "<authentication cookie>",
  "samson": {
    "production": true
  }
}

The auth key expects the value of your Samson session cookie. We still don't have a better authentication system (perhaps based in a Samson user token) due to Samson API limitations.

Usage

samson <command> [options...]

Commands

deploy

Performs a deploy of a branch or tag to a stage.

Syntax:

samson deploy <stage> <reference>

Where stage is a valid stage (see samson stages) and reference is a branch, tag or commit SHA.

Example:

samson deploy staging master

deploys

Prints the last 15 deploys.

Syntax:

samson deploys

builds

Prints the last builds.

Syntax:

samson builds

stages

Prints the configured stages.

Syntax:

samson stages

Options

-c | --config

You can specify a custom config, in json format

Syntax:

samson <command> -c '{ "url": "http://my-samson-url.com", ...}'

Note: You may not need to have a samsonrc.json file in order to use the program if the config is specified this way, but some autocompletion features will be disabled

To do

• Authenticate using Samson token instead of the session cookie
• Better help and readme
• Show deploy output
• Be able to specify a custom samsonrc.json
• Fail when no samsonrc.json is found
• Manage configuration defaults