#347 Rubber and Amazon EC2

May 03, 2012 | 17 minutes | Tools, Plugins, Deployment, Production

Deploying to Amazon EC2 allows you to scale an application quickly. Learn how to use Rubber to deploy to the cloud with just a few commands and monitor the cluster with various web tools.

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          terminal
        
rails new blog -d postgresql
cd blog
rails g scaffold article name content:text
gem install rubber
rubber -h
rbenv rehash
rubber vulcanize complete_passenger_postgresql

mkdir ~/.ec2
mv ~/Downloads/gsg-keypair.pem ~/.ec2/gsg-keypair
chmod 600 ~/.ec2/gsg-keypair
ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ec2/gsg-keypair > ~/.ec2/gsg-keypair.pub

bundle
cap rubber:create_staging
cat /etc/hosts
cap rubber:destroy_all
cap rubber:create # db01 db:primary=true
ALIAS=app01 ROLES=app cap rubber:create
ALIAS=web01 ROLES=web cap rubber:create
cap rubber:bootstrap
cap deploy:cold

cap rubber:tail_logs
cap deploy
cap -T rubber
cap rubber:describe
ALIAS=app02 ROLES=app cap rubber:create
ALIAS=db02 ROLES=db cap rubber:create
ALIAS=tools ROLES=web_tools cap rubber:create
cap rubber:bootstrap
FILTER=app02 cap deploy:cold
cap deploy

          Gemfile
        
gem 'therubyracer', :platform => :ruby

          config/deploy.rb
        
set :assets_role, [:app]

          config/rubber.yml
        
app_name: blog

web_tools_user: admin
web_tools_password: sekret

cloud_providers:
  aws:
    access_key: ...
    secret_access_key: ...
    account: ...

prompt_for_security_group_sync: false