Tip 1
Running surge from CLI is fine. But what about if you're deploying surge through a Continuous Integration pipeline like GoCD? Set up the environment variables: SURGE_LOGIN SURGE_TOKEN
See link below for details on how to extract the token.
Tip 2
Until iocage's built-in import/ export feature works one has to go about this manually. Steps
%iocage export [jailname]
Generates an image file in /zroot/iocage/images/[jailname][date].zip
Copy file to new host
%unzip [image].zip
2 files should be exposed
%zfs create /zroot/iocage/jail/[jailname]
%zfs recv -F [source file] > /zroot/iocage/jail/[jailname]
%zfs recv -F [source file]_root > /zroot/iocage/jail/[jailname]/root