diff --git a/Capfile b/Capfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..42dd3a47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Capfile
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# Load DSL and set up stages
+require "capistrano/setup"
+
+# Include default deployment tasks
+require "capistrano/deploy"
+
+# Load the SCM plugin appropriate to your project:
+#
+# require "capistrano/scm/hg"
+# install_plugin Capistrano::SCM::Hg
+# or
+# require "capistrano/scm/svn"
+# install_plugin Capistrano::SCM::Svn
+# or
+require "capistrano/scm/git"
+install_plugin Capistrano::SCM::Git
+
+# Include tasks from other gems included in your Gemfile
+#
+# For documentation on these, see for example:
+#
+#   https://github.com/capistrano/rvm
+#   https://github.com/capistrano/rbenv
+#   https://github.com/capistrano/chruby
+#   https://github.com/capistrano/bundler
+#   https://github.com/capistrano/rails
+#   https://github.com/capistrano/passenger
+#
+# require "capistrano/rvm"
+# require "capistrano/rbenv"
+# require "capistrano/chruby"
+# require "capistrano/bundler"
+# require "capistrano/rails/assets"
+# require "capistrano/rails/migrations"
+# require "capistrano/passenger"
+
+# Load custom tasks from `lib/capistrano/tasks` if you have any defined
+Dir.glob("lib/capistrano/tasks/*.rake").each { |r| import r }
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index a347346f..c3f484ac 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 gemspec
 
 gem 'ffi'
+gem 'activesupport', '~> 3.2'
 
 # This is needed temporarily to pull the Google Universal Analytics (UA)
 # data and store it in a file. See (bin/import_google_ua_analytics_data)
@@ -40,4 +41,14 @@ group :test do
   gem 'test-unit-minitest'
 end
 
+group :development do
+  # bcrypt_pbkdf and ed35519 is required for capistrano deployments when using ed25519 keys; see https://github.com/miloserdow/capistrano-deploy/issues/42
+  gem 'bcrypt_pbkdf', '>= 1.0', '< 2.0', require: false
+  gem 'capistrano', '~> 3', require: false
+  gem 'capistrano-bundler', require: false
+  gem 'capistrano-locally', require: false
+  gem 'capistrano-rbenv', require: false
+  gem 'ed25519', '>= 1.2', '< 2.0', require: false
+end
+
 gem "binding_of_caller", "~> 1.0"
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 515f26fd..731a60b7 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -79,12 +79,27 @@ GEM
       multi_json (~> 1.0)
     addressable (2.8.7)
       public_suffix (>= 2.0.2, < 7.0)
+    airbrussh (1.5.2)
+      sshkit (>= 1.6.1, != 1.7.0)
     base64 (0.2.0)
     bcrypt (3.1.20)
+    bcrypt_pbkdf (1.1.1)
     bigdecimal (3.1.8)
     binding_of_caller (1.0.1)
       debug_inspector (>= 1.2.0)
     builder (3.3.0)
+    capistrano (3.19.1)
+      airbrussh (>= 1.0.0)
+      i18n
+      rake (>= 10.0.0)
+      sshkit (>= 1.9.0)
+    capistrano-bundler (2.1.1)
+      capistrano (~> 3.1)
+    capistrano-locally (0.3.0)
+      capistrano (~> 3.0)
+    capistrano-rbenv (2.2.0)
+      capistrano (~> 3.1)
+      sshkit (~> 1.3)
     coderay (1.1.3)
     concurrent-ruby (1.3.4)
     connection_pool (2.4.1)
@@ -94,6 +109,7 @@ GEM
     declarative (0.0.20)
     docile (1.4.1)
     domain_name (0.6.20240107)
+    ed25519 (1.3.0)
     email_spec (2.1.1)
       htmlentities (~> 4.3.3)
       launchy (~> 2.1)
@@ -155,7 +171,7 @@ GEM
       googleapis-common-protos-types (~> 1.0)
     htmlentities (4.3.4)
     http-accept (1.7.0)
-    http-cookie (1.0.6)
+    http-cookie (1.0.7)
       domain_name (~> 0.5)
     httpclient (2.8.3)
     i18n (0.9.5)
@@ -192,6 +208,11 @@ GEM
     mutex_m (0.2.0)
     net-http-persistent (4.0.2)
       connection_pool (~> 2.2)
+    net-scp (4.0.0)
+      net-ssh (>= 2.6.5, < 8.0.0)
+    net-sftp (4.0.0)
+      net-ssh (>= 5.0.0, < 8.0.0)
+    net-ssh (7.2.3)
     netrc (0.11.0)
     oj (3.16.5)
       bigdecimal (>= 3.0)
@@ -267,6 +288,11 @@ GEM
       simplecov (~> 0.19)
     simplecov-html (0.12.3)
     simplecov_json_formatter (0.1.4)
+    sshkit (1.23.0)
+      base64
+      net-scp (>= 1.1.2)
+      net-sftp (>= 2.1.2)
+      net-ssh (>= 2.8.0)
     strscan (3.1.0)
     sys-proctable (1.3.0)
       ffi (~> 1.1)
@@ -284,8 +310,15 @@ PLATFORMS
   x86_64-linux
 
 DEPENDENCIES
+  activesupport (~> 3.2)
+  bcrypt_pbkdf (>= 1.0, < 2.0)
   binding_of_caller (~> 1.0)
+  capistrano (~> 3)
+  capistrano-bundler
+  capistrano-locally
+  capistrano-rbenv
   cube-ruby
+  ed25519 (>= 1.2, < 2.0)
   email_spec
   ffi
   goo!
diff --git a/config/deploy.rb b/config/deploy.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0c95ee8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/deploy.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+set :repo_url, "git@github.com:biodivportal/ncbo_cron.git"
+set :user, 'ontoportal'
+
+set :deploy_to, '/srv/ontoportal/ncbo_cron_deployments'
+
+
+set :stages, %w[appliance]
+set :default_stage, 'appliance'
+set :stage, 'appliance'
+set :application, 'cron'
+
+# SSH parameters
+set :ssh_port, 22
+set :pty, true
+
+# Source code
+set :repository_cache, "git_cache"
+set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
+set :ssh_options, { :forward_agent => true }
+
+# Linked files and directories
+append :linked_files, "config/config.rb"
+append :linked_dirs, 'logs', '.bundle'
+set :keep_releases, 2
+
+
diff --git a/config/deploy/production.rb b/config/deploy/production.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..40c7047f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/deploy/production.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+set :branch, 'master'
+set :server, 'biodivportal.gfbio.org'
+
+server fetch(:server), user: fetch(:user), roles: %w{web app}
+
+set :ssh_options, {
+  user: 'ontoportal',
+  forward_agent: 'true',
+  #keys: %w(config/deploy_id_rsa),
+  #auth_methods: %w(publickey),
+  # use ssh proxy if UI servers are on a private network
+  #proxy: Net::SSH::Proxy::Command.new('ssh deployer@sshproxy.ontoportal.org -W %h:%p')
+}
diff --git a/config/deploy/test.rb b/config/deploy/test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2bdc1ebb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/deploy/test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+set :branch, 'master'
+set :server, 'biodivportal.gfbio.dev'
+
+server fetch(:server), user: fetch(:user), roles: %w{web app}
+
+set :ssh_options, {
+  user: 'ontoportal',
+  forward_agent: 'true',
+  port: 30082
+  #keys: %w(config/deploy_id_rsa),
+  #auth_methods: %w(publickey),
+  # use ssh proxy if UI servers are on a private network
+  #proxy: Net::SSH::Proxy::Command.new('ssh deployer@sshproxy.ontoportal.org -W %h:%p')
+}