capistrano/sshkit

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A toolkit for deploying code and assets to servers in a repeatable, testable, reliable way.

Stars: 1.2k
Forks: 257
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 41

Dominant language: Ruby
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jul 25, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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should have an openssh backend Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#563 · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 18, 2026
No redaction for with values Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

capistrano/sshkit#562 · Opened Mar 17, 2026
`bundle install` step is assumed to have succeeded when OOM killed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

capistrano/sshkit#554 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2025
warning: already initialized constant SSHKit::StandardError Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#543 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2024
download! method doesn't close file Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

capistrano/sshkit#518 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2023
Issue with dependency versions (net-ssh and net-scp versions are incompatible) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

capistrano/sshkit#499 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 12, 2022
`could not settle on host_key algorithm (SSHKit::Runner::ExecuteError)` with certificate based authentication Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#495 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 12, 2021
Exports added by :with are ineffective when :user is specified Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

capistrano/sshkit#490 · Opened Mar 31, 2021
Remove whoami check in as command Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

capistrano/sshkit#470 · Opened Jul 30, 2019
Overriding Net::SSH::Config.default_files is not the best strategy as of today Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#422 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 23, 2018
Using `as` and sudo with NOPASSD and !requiretty Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#420 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2018
Feature: Configuration to set maximum parallelization of :parallel runner Open

discuss! new feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#414 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 20, 2017
Q: streaming output from an `execute` Open

discuss!

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#395 · 12 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2017
excessive warning for files of size 0 Open

confirmed bug help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

capistrano/sshkit#391 · 13 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2017
An exit in parallel execution exits from all hosts Open

discuss! new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

capistrano/sshkit#384 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 27, 2016
ble`within` does not seem to respect `as` Open

bug? help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#373 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 6, 2016
Feature request: command map suffix Open

discuss! enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#366 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 9, 2016
as user not working???? Open

chore help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#361 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2016
Use /bin/bash when using Bash specific shell commands Open

help wanted new feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

capistrano/sshkit#354 · 13 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2016
Nested "on" blocks should raise or warn Open

discuss! enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#352 · 4 comments · Opened May 21, 2016
Feature: Don't display redundant error messages on execute failure Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#348 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 18, 2016
Running SSHKit tests with Rake 11.0 reveals many Ruby warnings Open

discuss!

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#344 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2016
Issue: Trusted strings, shell escaping and backwards compatibility. Open

discuss!

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#333 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2016
Bug: Background doesn't work as expected, should be deprecated and eventually removed Open

discuss!

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

capistrano/sshkit#332 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2016
Bug: upload! within an `as 'root'` block will fail. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#329 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2016
Issue: Parallel executor performance is mostly linear Open

bug?

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#326 · 20 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2016
Bug: using as function with group fails on centos 5.11 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#315 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2016
Bug: within(directory){ execute(string) } should either 'just work' or 'boom' Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#306 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 14, 2015
Improve connection pooling cache key scheme Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#290 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 23, 2015
Feature: git:wrapper user when uploading git-ssh.sh Open

enhancement need more info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#267 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2015
Feature: Ability to login as one user and run all tasks as another Open

enhancement need more info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

capistrano/sshkit#262 · 21 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2015
Feature: ability to set custom sudo command Open

enhancement need more info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

capistrano/sshkit#191 · 15 comments · Opened Nov 13, 2014
Issue: SSHKit::Backend::Netssh binding change in run method breaks lookup in 'normal' block scope Open

discuss!

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#149 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2014
Fix handling of output streams, including in cases of error. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

capistrano/sshkit#100 · 25 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2014
On exit<>0 netssh backend deletes all command output Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#59 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2013
:wait option is broken Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

capistrano/sshkit#52 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2013
command_map for piped commands Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#48 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 14, 2013
`test()` in `within(dir)` should run after cd into dir Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

capistrano/sshkit#23 · 15 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2013
Support project-local known hosts file. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#19 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2013
Issue: `sudo` isn't always available (particularly "-minimal" distributions) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

capistrano/sshkit#13 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 4, 2013
Mapped commands aren't re-mapped Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

capistrano/sshkit#11 · Opened Jan 26, 2013

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