In a recent blog post Chris Hartjes is asking the community (more specifically the CakePHP community) for their opinions on his thoughts for a deployment method for CakePHP apps.
While I really prefer to use tools like this for deployment, I understand that not everyone wants to mess with standalone programs and configuration files. I've been asked before about Cake-specific deployment techniques, so I figure the easiest way is to see about adding a task to the Cake console.
His idea consists of two new commands - "cake deploy config" and "cake deploy" to make it simple to set up and directly deploy applications without having to go to outside software.