Stacko

Stacko is an opinionated application deployment workflow.

For now, Stacko can help you create and setup a Rails server on AWS in a jiffy.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'stacko'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install stacko

Usage

1. Create an application deployment project folder

mkdir deployment

2. Create Gemfile in project folder

source :rubygems

gem 'rake'
gem 'stacko'

3. Create Rakefile in project folder

require 'stacko'
require 'stacko/tasks'

4. Initialize project folder with Chef directories

rake stacko:init

5. Download cookbooks into project folder

rake stacko:cookbooks_install

6. Set up an existing server? Set up a new EC2 instance?

6.1 Standalone Instance

6.1.1 Create node.json

mv nodes/node.json.sample nodes/<remote-server-ip=address>.json
# Update details in <remote-server-ip=address>.json
# Set app name, app git, app db name and app db password

6.1.2 Create stacko.yml

mv config/stacko.yml.sample config/stacko.yml
# Update details in stacko.yml
# Set remote server ip address, username and password

6.2 EC2 Instance

TODO

7. Install chef-solo on server

rake stacko:server_init[environment]

..where environment is one of the defined targets in config/stacko.yml.

8. Run chef-solo on server

rake stacko:server_install[environment]